Is your child on drugs? What to look out for...

• Negative changes in schoolwork, missing school, or declining grades.
• Increased secrecy about possessions or activities.
• Use of incense, room deodorant or perfume to hide smoke or chemical odors.
• Subtle changes in conversations with friends (more secretive, using “coded” language).
• New friends (often sudden change).
• Change in clothing choices — new fascination with clothes that highlight drug use.
• Increase in borrowing money.
• Evidence of drug paraphernalia, such as pipes, rolling papers (Rizlas).
• Evidence of inhaling products and accessories, such as hair spray, nail polish,  correction fluid, paper bags and rags, and common household products.
• Bottles of eye drops, which may be used to mask bloodshot eyes or dilated pupils.
• New use of mouthwash or breath mints to cover up the smell of alcohol, marijuana or tobacco.
• Missing prescription drugs — especially narcotics and mood stabilizers. Drug tests

Testing kids for drugs

Drugs are a present reality and to effectively fight them often demands extreme measures. One way to check whether your child has used drugs is to do a simple urine drug test. This can be done in the privacy of your home and there are a lot of different tests on the market. Anything from testing for specific drug types like Nicotine (cigarettes), alcohol and Dagga to a single test which screens for six of the most commonly abused drugs:

• Amphetamines (Tik)
• Benzodiazepines (date rape drug)
• Cocaine (Crack)
• Ecstasy (Ecstacy)
• Opiates (Heroin, morphine, pethidine, Nyaope, Sugars)
• Marijuana (Dagga)

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Another great thing is that the results are available within 5 minutes.
For more information on drug testing visit your local chemist. For online products:  Homemed

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