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Teen Drug Testing

Trust, but Verify.

Teen drug use is on the rise, and powerful drugs are more accessible to teens then ever before. Kids don’t always make the right decisions, and the wrong decision with drugs can lead to addiction and even permanent brain damage.

The use of illegal drugs is increasing, especially among young teens. The average age of first marijuana use is 14, and alcohol use can start before age 12. The use of marijuana and alcohol in high school has become common.

Drug use is associated with a variety of negative consequences, including increased risk of serious drug use later in life, school failure, and poor judgment which may put teens at risk for accidents, violence, unplanned and unsafe sex, and suicide.

Testing your teen is proven to help with peer pressure. Give them an extra reason why they can’t
just “try it one time.” ANY LAB TEST NOW offers the most accurate tests on the market. Speak with our staff to see how our tests can be tailored to meet your family’s unique needs.

Signs your child may be using drugs:

• Unusual aggressive behavior
• Hanging out with a different crowd
• Sleepy
• Grades slipping
• Losing interest in their favorite activities
• Secrecy
• Private phone calls, texts and emails
• Unusual aggressive behavior
• More focus on money
• Mood swings
• Memory loss
• Red or runny eyes and nose
• Change in appetite
• Depression

What you can do:

• Talk to your child often
• Know their friends
• Monitor their cell phone, text, and Internet usage
• Know where they are, and who they’re with
• Discuss drugs and their effects on developing brains

Why Home Testing Isn’t Recommended:

While there are a lot of over-the-counter drug tests available, there are several reasons to use a trusted third-party to drug test your teen:

• Our employees are highly trained in collecting specimens, and are not fooled by attempts to ‘trick’ the tests.
• Using a neutral 3rd party takes any unnecessary ‘blame’ off of the parent for positive tests.
• Laboratory tests are the most accurate tests available to the public.

Any Lab Test Now® offers Discreet, Confidential and Accurate
the following drug tests :

• Urine Rapid Screen Drug Test: This is a 5 or 10 panel drug test which we perform at our facility. Results will available within minutes. Positive results can be confirmed at the lab at no extra charge.
  Drugs in the Rapid Screen Drug Test are: Amphetamines, Methamphetamines, Cocaine, Marijuana, Opiates, Phencyclidine, Barbiturate, Benzodiazepine, Methadone, Methaqualone, Propoxyphene. Oxycodone, Ecstasy.
  
  
• Urine Drug Test: This is a 5 or 10 panel drug screen test which we directly send out to the lab. Results come back within 1 to 3 days depending if positives are found that need to be confirmed.
  Drugs in the Rapid Screen Drug Test are: Amphetamines, Methamphetamines, Cocaine, Marijuana, Opiates, Phencyclidine, Barbiturate, Benzodiazepine, Methadone, Methaqualone, Propoxyphene. Oxycodone, Ecstasybr>

• Hair Drug Test: This is a 5, 7 or 10 panel drug test performed on hair. For this test we collect several hair samples close to the scalp. Don’t worry we can take small samples of different areas on the scalp so it will not be visible afterwards. The big advantage of a hair follicle drug test is that it shows drug use as far back as 90 days.
  Drugs in the hair follicle drug test: Amphetamines, Methampheatmines, Cocaine, Marijuana, Opiates, Phencyclidine, Barbiturates, Benzodiazepine, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone.
  

• Teen Drug Testing Program: Sign your Teen up for our Teen Drug Testing Program. To make sure that your teen is not using drugs it is important to screen him/her on a regular bases. It is not only for you to be sure that your teen is not using drugs, but it also gives your teen a great tool to resist peer pressure.
  Now they can say, “I can’t take it even once because my parents check me on a regular bases”. We advise you to have your teen screened every month. Look for special pricing for our Teen Drug Testing Program.
  

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Any Lab Test Now® promises to keep your results completely confidential. It won’t go into your medical records. You can even do it anonymously.
Our friendly staff will assist your with any questions you have and will treat each case as discretely as possible. For even more privacy we offer after hour appointments.

Click here to see the Teen Drug Abuse Statistics.

Drug-Testing Programs Influence Teen Behavior

“The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing”

Students involved in extracurricular activities and subject to in-school random drug testing reported using drugs less often than their peers in high schools that didn’t have drug-testing programs, according to a federal evaluation of 4,700 students spread across seven states.

The study was funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education, and conducted by RMC Research Corp., based in Portsmouth, N.H., and Princeton, N.J.-based Mathematica Policy Research. The researchers said the study, which was posted online last month, is the largest and most rigorous examination of drug-testing programs to date.

Sixteen percent of students who were subject to drug testing in the study reported using substances covered by their district’s testing program in the previous 30 days, compared with 22 percent of similar students in schools without a drug-testing program.

But the presence of the drug-testing program did not affect students’ reported intentions to use covered substances in the future, the study shows. In the schools with drug testing, 34 percent of students reported they “definitely” or “probably” would use substances covered by their school’s drug-testing program in the next 12 months. In schools without testing, 33 percent of students reported they would definitely or probably use covered substances.

In the one-year period of the study, there was no evidence of positive spillover effects fromdrug testing: The same proportion of students in drug-testing schools who were not subject to the policy because they didn’t play sports or weren’t involved in extracurricular activities reported substance use as students in schools that did not conduct drug tests.

(Published in Print: August 11, 2010, as Drug-Testing Programs Influence Teen Behavior)