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Monday, January 9, 2012

Useful Drug Test Kits to Detect Drug Abuse Among Teens

Drug abuse is one of the major concerns of the present society. Especially when it comes to teenagers, the situation is even sick. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, in 2011, nearly 22.6% of the school seniors used Marijuana is the past month. Among all the other drugs, marijuana is mostly in use among teens. The availability of marijuana in different forms like the synthetic marijuna, K2, spice and so on made it easy for the teens and school students to go for it. In addition there are few more drugs which are often used by teens and there is an equal concern towards the use of those drugs as well.
Keeping all these in mind, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMSHA which works on improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention conducted a research and found that there are five drugs which are popularly in use. They called them as SAMHSA 5 and mandatory guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing program permit testing of drugs in five different categories. Those five drugs are Marijuana, Cocaine metabolites, Amphetamines, Opiate metabolites, Phencyclidine.

Basing on these many manufactures made drug test kits which can effectively detect SAMSHA five drugs. As they are the most popularly used drugs, the drug test kits which can detect those drugs are effective in finding the drug abuse among teens. Employing a home drug testing policy, which let all the family members to participate makes the teens feel less offended and also tells them that you are against drug testing. Conducting drug test regularly with out any prior notice helps you to detect drug abuse and also makes the teens be conscious about their habits.

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