| For people who wish to prove their innocence | | | | showing the progress of a previous abuser to |
| against faulty addiction or abuse claims, alcohol | | | | sobriety. |
| detection drug service testing with hair alcohol | | | | |
| testing gives them a fighting chance to win | | | | How Hair Alcohol Testing Works |
| against false claims. Here are just a couple | | | | If the lawyer or case worker or courts request |
| examples where random drug testing works in | | | | that the mother or father undergo hair alcohol |
| the favor of innocent people. | | | | testing, for example, then a certified nurse will |
| | | | | come to the parent’s home or office and |
| - Applying for a job | | | | collect a small sample of scalp hair and either |
| - Child custody | | | | physically take it to a lab or have it sent to a lab |
| - Recovering addicts | | | | where the hair alcohol testing is done. The hair |
| - High school athletics | | | | alcohol testing lab takes the hair sample through a |
| | | | | series of tests that reveal when a person has |
| Perhaps you are a recovering addict and you are | | | | consumed alcohol and approximately how much |
| applying for a high-tech or highly skilled job which | | | | they consumed. A special test called EtG alcohol |
| demands a sober person with a clean history. If | | | | testing can show alcohol use in segments of time |
| you have to explain that you have been in | | | | which is unlike any other test in the world. EtG, |
| treatment for 6 months, unless you have | | | | ethyl glucuronide is a metabolite only produced |
| adequate testing results that can prove | | | | when alcohol is in the bloodstream. |
| you’re sober, how else would you be able | | | | |
| to get past the competition and get hired? As an | | | | As hair grows it absorbs everything we ingest |
| employer, hiring a previous drug addict is a risk. | | | | from chemicals to food and drugs and alcohol. |
| With hair alcohol testing, you can prove to the | | | | Fatty Ethel Esters, FAEE are formed as part of |
| employer you have been clean for up to 12 | | | | the hair’s structure as a result of drug and |
| months of clean history. | | | | alcohol consumption, which remain indefinitely. And |
| | | | | the more alcohol that is consumed creates more |
| Previously, if a parent was accused of being an | | | | EtG markers present in the hair shaft |
| alcoholic or an abuser of alcohol, a urine alcohol | | | | consumption of alcohol has been up to a 30 day |
| test was given but the alcohol concentration was | | | | history and if the hair sample is longer, as much |
| not always accurate and what’s more, is | | | | as a year of alcohol consumption can be tested. |
| that the urinalysis test only showed a weeks | | | | Using sensitive equipment, a small sample of hair |
| worth of abuse- not providing the courts the | | | | can reveal everything a person has consumed |
| evidence they needed say of six months | | | | from vitamins, drugs and now even alcohol. The |
| minimum or a years worth of evidence being ideal. | | | | more alcohol a person has consumed, the more |
| The rate that alcohol leaves the body in hours | | | | markers will be present on a test. |
| and minutes makes it extremely difficult to judge | | | | |
| how much a person has consumed and how long | | | | This proof alone could win child custody battles, |
| ago it was that the person consumed it. | | | | get a student back on the team or allow an |
| Employers, courts and schools could test for drug | | | | employer to feel good about hiring a previous |
| abuse because of its slower rate of leaving the | | | | abuser. Hair alcohol testing is accepted as certified |
| body, but never long term alcohol abuse. What is | | | | evidence for court cases in America and the |
| also unique about hair alcohol testing is that it can | | | | United Kingdom. |
| reveal month to month markers of alcohol intake, | | | | |