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Article: HOME DRUG TEST PUTS PARENTS IN A QUANDARY
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1995
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You think your kid is doing drugs. He's got all the signs: aberrant behavior, slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, falling grades, weird eating habits, even weirder friends.
You ask, but get no answers. You accuse, and get doors slammed in your face. You're pretty sure, but you have no real evidence.
And then someone offers you a cheap, simple, theoretically foolproof way of learning the truth, even if you have to use it without your child's knowledge.
Do you use it? If you do, and confront your child with the evidence, do you shatter a bond of trust? Is a teen's privacy more important than a parent's right - or some ...