How To Incorporate A Home Drug Test Into A Conversation With Your Teen

November 17th, 2009  

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America has come up with a new online tool, “Time to Act” for parents concerned about teen drug use to use. Whether you know or think you know that your child is using anything from nicotine, alcohol, or harder drugs, this is a guide that will help you prepare for the difficult conversation you nonetheless want to and need to have with your teen.

If you are considering incorporating a home drug test into the conversation, you do have various options. If hard drugs are not involved, an alcohol test or nicotine test might be sufficient as a way of keeping a teen on a drug free regimen. These tests are simple to use urine tests and come in packs of 5 (nicotine) or 10 (alcohol) for such a purpose. They are extremely accurate and difficult to dodge.

Or perhaps you are in a different situation – you are not sure what your child may be using. In this case, the option of a multi-drug urine drug test or a hair drug test may be something to consider. For less than 10 dollars, you can find out if your child has been using any of the 12 drugs on the panel (click the link above to see exactly what drugs are included). If your question is along the lines of “how long has this been going on,” hair drug tests can help you answer that by giving you a 90 day history of drug use. We sell many tests that might fill your need in one way or another – our drug test detection times chart is a great resource for figuring out what kind of test could best solve your questions.

Like the “Time to Act” tool, we wish here at Home Health Testing to play a constructive role in helping friends and parents facing such difficult conversations. We hope that not only our products but the quality of our information will help you through any process involving drug use or addiction. Thank you for reading our blog and please feel free to leave a comment!

Update 11/18: We also want to say thanks to the Fuller Youth Institute for recommending us as a resource for a home drug test when talking to a teen and dealing with drug abuse. You can check out their blog entry here: Fuller Youth Institute: Courageous Intervention.

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Nicotine Test – Do You Need One? We Help You Find Out

November 11th, 2009   1 Comment

With the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout coming up on November 19, you may be in a position of wanting to take the opportunity to quit. But how should you quit? There are so many strategies, among them our very own nicotine test. Some use it as a monitoring tool so friends or family can help keep them honest in terms of truly quitting.

But in addition to using a nicotine test to quit, you may also want additional help and resources, one of the reasons why the link above is so great. We also found this easy 6 question test brought to you by the University of Maryland Medical System. It’s a nicotine dependency test. Based on your answers to the questions, the test will tell you how dependent you are and what methods of quitting might best help you – behavior modification, nicotine replacement therapy, etc.

Now of course, you can buy a nicotine test at any time during the year, and you can access great “how to quit smoking” features online all the time too. The US government set up a website entirely dedicated to quitting smoking at Smoke Free. Smoke Free.gov recognizes the difficulty of quitting and the unique journey everyone makes. Controlling a craving for a cigarette can be extremely difficult – that is why some people use a nicotine test as a benchmark to prove they did not smoke, for themselves and for others who may be helping them in their quitting effort. Knowing that a cigarette might be the difference between passing or failing a tobacco test is a strong motivator. You want to both beat the habit and pass the test. Our packaging is ideal for this kind of use, as this home drug test comes bundled in five and ten packs.

Home Health Testing wants you to know that there are plenty of resources out there to help you quit smoking, and you are not alone in doing it! You can make November 19, or any day, the beginning of your effort. Check out the links in our article and/or head to our nicotine test page to purchase a test.

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