Drug addiction causes many health problems, it disrupts family relations and it also shows effect on the career of the individual who is abusing drugs. There are certain actions done by health agencies worldwide to decrease the rate of drug addiction, these measures are not effective and the number of people who are getting addicted to drugs are increasing instead of decreasing. At present there are lot of tests which are used to know whether a person is taking drugs and these tests are widely applied in the sports to test the athletes who use performance enhancing drugs.
Generally drug testing is a technical examination of urine, blood, hair and other fluid samples from the body's system and these tests traces weather a person is taking drugs or not. There are different types of drug tests which includes urine test, hair follicle test or saliva test, blood test and the skin test. Drug testing can be done at schools, work places and medical institutions. Some big organizations are testing their employees before hiring because they don't want to spoil the work environment. Previously these drug tests are done in the laboratories under supervision of experts. Now you can do these tests at your home with simple home kits. These are very helpful for the parents to test their children for drug abusing. Parents can receive the samples from the children without their awareness and perform drug testing.
Among the above said tests which are available for testing the drug abuse, the test which can give better results is the hair follicle test because the sample for this test is the hair which is attached on a person's scalp wherein the number of toxins and contaminants can be easily determined. But in the other tests which uses urine and saliva, they can be easily replaced and there is a great chance of getting false results.
Generally drug testing is a technical examination of urine, blood, hair and other fluid samples from the body's system and these tests traces weather a person is taking drugs or not. There are different types of drug tests which includes urine test, hair follicle test or saliva test, blood test and the skin test. Drug testing can be done at schools, work places and medical institutions. Some big organizations are testing their employees before hiring because they don't want to spoil the work environment. Previously these drug tests are done in the laboratories under supervision of experts. Now you can do these tests at your home with simple home kits. These are very helpful for the parents to test their children for drug abusing. Parents can receive the samples from the children without their awareness and perform drug testing.
Among the above said tests which are available for testing the drug abuse, the test which can give better results is the hair follicle test because the sample for this test is the hair which is attached on a person's scalp wherein the number of toxins and contaminants can be easily determined. But in the other tests which uses urine and saliva, they can be easily replaced and there is a great chance of getting false results.
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