| Not only can drug testing your teen uncover | | | | which drugs have on the learning ability. They do |
| addictions, it can also prevent drug use. If your | | | | not realize that when they start to do drugs, not |
| teen has a good excuse not to do drugs, they will | | | | only their grades go down but their ability to learn |
| be able to quell the peer pressure put on them by | | | | also deteriorates. In the long run even if you hurt |
| friends and acquaintances when badgered to do | | | | their feelings now, it will help for the rest of their |
| drugs. | | | | lives. When they have kids of their own, they will |
| Inexpensive in-home testing supplies have set the | | | | look back and be thankful that you set an escape |
| stage for parents to no longer wonder if their | | | | for them to use, to be able to say no. |
| kids are experimenting with drugs. The age old | | | | Even though the teen may seem to think and |
| dilemma has been whether to meddle in your kids | | | | argue that you are meddling in the business. And |
| affairs or not. Now there is an out for your kids. | | | | yes you are, you are the parent, but at the same |
| They can say "Hey, I'm not going to do drugs, | | | | time you are setting them up with boundaries and |
| I'm under routine testing and my future is too | | | | aids in fighting the peer pressure which starts |
| important to me." Before, all the peer pressure | | | | most teens on drugs. |
| was on the kids and they had no deterrent | | | | Most parents are hesitant to talk drugs with their |
| (excuse) to be able to say no. | | | | kids, and avoid the subject. The talk about drugs |
| Many of us look back and can say that our life | | | | and how to avoid the peer pressure involved, |
| would have been much easier and better if the | | | | along with the boundaries and escapes (the |
| requirement to having a car, was that routine and | | | | testing) which you are putting in place will give the |
| random drug tests were passed. Most teens | | | | teen the ammunition to combat the peer |
| would stay clean of drugs if they could not have | | | | pressure. Do you care enough about your kids to |
| the use of a car, or their own car! The use of | | | | talk drugs with them? At least, have a cheap |
| random drug testing may be the thing which | | | | drug test laying around so they have the excuse |
| keeps your kids alive and out of prison. | | | | to say no! |
| Most teens do not realize the debilitating factor | | | | |