| Hair drug testing has been catching the news | | | | relevant method in catching the good public |
| wires lately as it touches Celebrity rumours, | | | | servant from the bad public servant. |
| family issues, and concern in the workplace and | | | | Parents Differ Opinions on Drug Testing |
| public service. Let us take a quick look of some | | | | With hair testing kits being developed to be more |
| interesting news articles that has hit the hair wires | | | | accessible to consumers, many parents are finding |
| on drug testing. | | | | these drug tests useful in discovering what their |
| Fire-fighters in Drug Trouble | | | | teenagers are up to. Zeynep Ilgaz, president and |
| In the Boston fire department, forty fire fighters | | | | CEO of Confirm BioSciences has stated that their |
| who are suspected of drug abuse have been | | | | HairConfirm kit detects drugs such as marijuana, |
| tested this year, resulting in three officers quitting. | | | | cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, ecstasy, heroine, |
| These tests followed the probe of a fire battle | | | | and codeine. Ilgaz said that they specifically |
| incident when two fire fighters were impaired | | | | developed HairConfirm because of the rising |
| following a fire call. Fire fighter readiness continues | | | | concern of parents on teenage drug use problem. |
| to be the most critical skill that they must | | | | This hair drug tests show quantitative and |
| possess. | | | | accurate results. |
| Police policy on their personnel does not allow | | | | Most parents realize the usefulness of these hair |
| mandatory drug testing. However, drug testing | | | | drug tests. For one, parents can test for drug use |
| can be ordered to a police or a fire fighter if he is | | | | without the knowledge of their children. All they |
| under "reasonable suspicion." With hair drug testing | | | | need is a hair sample that can be taken from |
| becoming a critical issue in contract negotiations | | | | their children's hair brush. This method prevents |
| between the government and labour unions in the | | | | the confrontation that usually happens when a |
| police department, the new police contract | | | | parent "passes a cup" to his children so that they |
| requires that any person that fails a hair drug test | | | | can have urine drug tests. If the drug test comes |
| is subject for random urinalysis for the remainder | | | | out positive then parents agree that they can |
| of his career. | | | | engage a conversation in an advantage since they |
| Hair drug testing is important to detect drug use | | | | have certainty of their children's drug issue. |
| in a wide time range. However, the police rely on | | | | While this can breach trust issues, hair drug |
| urine drug tests to confirm their suspicions. For | | | | testing is seen as a new parenting tool as some |
| some, hair drug testing is used to give the | | | | parents pointed out. There is always an ethics |
| authorities an idea which can even pass evidence | | | | involved in drug issues from the workplace and at |
| in some courts. Hair drug testing has been a | | | | home. |