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Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they?
    #6909420 - 05/13/07 10:42 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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The mother in Boulder, Colo., had been down this road with one child and swore she would never make a return trip. When she became suspicious her youngest son was trying drugs, she went to Walgreens, plunked down $38 for a home drug-test kit and told him to pee in a cup.

The high school junior was furious. And busted.

"Don't you trust me?" he wailed.

His mother would not budge.

Finally, reluctantly, the 16-year-old, whose name is not being used to protect his privacy, confessed: The reason he didn't want to take the test was that it would be positive.

His mother thanked him for his honesty and gave him 30 days to clean up his act. There would be another test when he least expected. A month later, she sent him back to the bathroom, cup in hand. He passed.

In the year since, she hasn't tested him again. But that doesn't mean she won't. She keeps a test in the house, just in case.

What makes this mother's private act of parental vigilance so extraordinary is not that she and tens of thousands of other parents have bought into the multimillion-dollar industry of home drug testing.

It's that parents do so despite warnings from most major drug-abuse and treatment professionals, the nation's medical establishment, parenting experts and even the White House. All call home-testing teens a bad idea.

"I guess home testing is better than no testing," said a skeptical Bertha Madras, the White House's deputy drug czar.

But her Office of National Drug Control Policy does not encourage parents to take matters into their own hands. Instead, the Bush administration backs random school drug testing, arguing schools are better equipped to help with counseling and referrals if a problem is found.

"By the time a parent tests, it's already far down the road," Madras said. "If they get a positive result, then what? Parents may or may not have the skill to proceed."

In March, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement opposing both home drug testing and involuntary drug testing in schools. The medical group prefers that worried parents have their children tested by qualified doctors or treatment specialists because of the possibility of error or tampering.

"It's deceptively simple, but the truth is, it's actually a very complicated issue," said Dr. Sharon Levy, who specializes in childhood addiction at Children's Hospital Boston.

Levy has studied the meteoric rise of home drug testing since the federal Food and Drug Administration first approved the kits in 1997. She worries not only about inaccuracy but also about eroding trust during a time when many teens are already pulling away.

Most tests use a litmus strip to detect traces of drugs or byproducts in urine. Others check hair samples or saliva. As many as 12 illicit and prescription drugs can be detected.

Still, experts worry the home tests are not sophisticated enough to catch low levels or every drug being used.

"Parents are motivated by the best of intentions," Levy said. "They are told by marketers this is a good thing to do. But drug testing is basically a threat. And while it might have some short-term behavioral changes, I don't think it's a good long-term prevention method."

Abuse by teens of prescription drugs, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, remains a problem. However, the most recent survey of 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders by Monitoring the Future shows the use of illicit drugs, such as marijuana, actually is decreasing. Monitoring the Future, a study by University of Michigan researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health, has tracked drug use among adolescents since 1975.

Still, the drug-testing business has never been better.

Last year, sales by industry leader Phamatech Inc. topped $27 million, said Carl Mongiovi, vice president of the San Diego company. He said sales included more than 431,000 marijuana tests alone.

Since Phamatech introduced the first home tests in 1999, sales have increased by more than 30 percent each year.

In Colorado Springs, Colo., single mother Amanda Beihl was one of the first to carve out a business from Internet sales.

Beihl created homedrugtestingkit.com and last year sold more than 100,000 kits to test for illicit and prescription drugs and alcohol use. She said her sales are proof of a pendulum swing toward stricter parenting.


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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #6909521 - 05/13/07 11:08 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

"Abuse by teens of prescription drugs, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, remains a problem. However, the most recent survey of 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders by Monitoring the Future shows the use of illicit drugs, such as marijuana, actually is decreasing. Monitoring the Future, a study by University of Michigan researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health, has tracked drug use among adolescents since 1975."

It's great that kids are ceasing to use the safe, illegal drugs, and now abusing dangerous, yet legal, perscription drugs.

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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Siekoaktiv]
    #6909625 - 05/13/07 11:51 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Oxycotin and Vicodin are not over the counter.

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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: wireless]
    #6909678 - 05/13/07 12:07 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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wireless said:
Oxycotin and Vicodin are not over the counter.




Sorry, I meant perscriptions drugs. I'll change it in s ec, im kinda coming down oin sally rite now...


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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Siekoaktiv]
    #6909933 - 05/13/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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It's great that kids are ceasing to use the safe, illegal drugs, and now abusing dangerous, yet legal, perscription drugs.




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Sorry, I meant perscriptions drugs. I'll change it in s ec, im kinda coming down oin sally rite now...




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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: 2859558484]
    #6912871 - 05/14/07 06:42 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Parents should drug test their kids! Teens dont need to be using drugs. Good parenting is about teaching responsibility and watching out over your child. However, I find it interesting parents are actually doing anything instead of relying on the government to do it for them. It may not prevent drug use, but its a step along the way, and it keeps the parent involved. You gotta talk to your kids and actually PARENT along with this stuff though, you cant just drug test and expect the perfect little child because you didnt catch them with drugs.

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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: dedjam]
    #6912891 - 05/14/07 06:52 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

> Parents should drug test their kids!

If parents were being parents, they would have no need to drug test their kids. The drug test is simply a method for the parents to ensure that the TV and internet are doing a good job babysitting.


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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Seuss]
    #6912956 - 05/14/07 07:34 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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> Parents should drug test their kids!

If parents were being parents, they would have no need to drug test their kids. The drug test is simply a method for the parents to ensure that the TV and internet are doing a good job babysitting.




Eh, ill agree with that to a certain extent. If you know what your kids are doing, then you know they arent involved with drugs. However, I still see no problem with drug testing your kids to make sure, and to let them know that drugs wont be tolerated at their young age.

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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Seuss]
    #6912976 - 05/14/07 07:46 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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Seuss said:The drug test is simply a method for the parents to ensure that the TV and internet are doing a good job babysitting.




Exactly.


> Still, experts worry the home tests are not sophisticated enough to catch low levels or every drug being used.

Oh, really? What "experts" are those? I'm sure they must know that it's the same dip-strip test that every drug testing place in the country uses.

Sounds like they're trying to deflect the issue from the fact that it's wrong to force drug tests on people (even younger ones) to the idea that there is some problem with the testing that is fixed by their forced school testing.

Why are people such cows as to buy into the idea that drugs are so bad that you are justified into forcing them to take a test, yet somehow the drugs aren't bad enough that you could tell if someone you see every day was using?

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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: fastfred]
    #6913024 - 05/14/07 08:18 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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Why are people such cows as to buy into the idea that drugs are so bad that you are justified into forcing them to take a test, yet somehow the drugs aren't bad enough that you could tell if someone you see every day was using?




Shhhh.... you are making too much sense...


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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #6913363 - 05/14/07 09:52 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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But her Office of National Drug Control Policy does not encourage parents to take matters into their own hands. Instead, the Bush administration backs random school drug testing, arguing schools are better equipped to help with counseling and referrals if a problem is found.

"By the time a parent tests, it's already far down the road," Madras said. "If they get a positive result, then what? Parents may or may not have the skill to proceed."




This is far and away the biggest threat here -- the idea that a government bureaucracy (public schools! lol) is better qualified to raise children than parents!

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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: Seuss]
    #6913384 - 05/14/07 10:02 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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What makes this mother's private act of parental vigilance so extraordinary is not that she and tens of thousands of other parents have bought into the multimillion-dollar industry of home drug testing.

It's that parents do so despite warnings from most major drug-abuse and treatment professionals, the nation's medical establishment, parenting experts and even the White House. All call home-testing teens a bad idea.

"I guess home testing is better than no testing," said a skeptical Bertha Madras, the White House's deputy drug czar.

But her Office of National Drug Control Policy does not encourage parents to take matters into their own hands. Instead, the Bush administration backs random school drug testing, arguing schools are better equipped to help with counseling and referrals if a problem is found.

"By the time a parent tests, it's already far down the road," Madras said. "If they get a positive result, then what? Parents may or may not have the skill to proceed."

In March, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement opposing both home drug testing and involuntary drug testing in schools. The medical group prefers that worried parents have their children tested by qualified doctors or treatment specialists because of the possibility of error or tampering.




I find it interesting that each industry that could possibly make profit from this nonsense is trying to assert their so called authority over the matter that they themselves nurture. And of course the ever flexing govt wanting to assert their control over their citizens.

When will parents get off the drugs are bad band wagon. I love people who used "drugs" for "fun" and stop when they suddenly "mature". Yet, they see nothing wrong with chugging alcohol, a poison. I for one would rather find a bowl and bag or even many other natural substances in my son's room when he's a teen than a 12 pack or bottle of liquor. Maybe these parents should try being parents and build up trust and communication rather than jumping up and drug testing their kid. Parents seem to forget that for a kid to be honest, the parent must also build the trust. And I'm sorry, but drug testing your kid (as my mom unsuccessfully tried to do) only makes them distrust you even more. You also become more of the enemy than the open parent you should be.


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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: trippindad82]
    #6914218 - 05/14/07 01:10 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Legally the school cant force a drug test upon you can they? I mean if you apply for a job they can ask you to take one, and not hire you if you refuse, but you cant just get expelled from school for refusing a drug test. Isn't that what the constitution is supposed to prevent, random acts of violating privacy. There was no just cause for them to test you so according to the constitution doesn't that mean its illegal? Like back in history we were learning how British troops used to break into houses at random and every once in awhile find someone doing something illegal. The forefathers seeing that this was an invasion of privacy outlawed it... doesn't this extend to this situation? Correct me if I'm wrong, thats just how i interpreted it...


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Re: Parents turn to home drug tests for teenagers, but should they? [Re: jgelldux09]
    #6914475 - 05/14/07 02:09 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Just Say No to drug testing.

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