Home drug test

Testing for drugs at home and the types of drug tests accesible. Often, drugs are a difficult subject in countless house holds. As you may know drugs are illegal and the consequenses for either possessing them or taking them can be dire. There are many types of drugs, often with various ‘street’ names resulting in them being harder to spot, by non-users, in conversation.

These are the most common drugs used:

•Cannabis – puff, weed, draw, hash, marijuana
• Cocaine – crack, coke, charlie
• Methamphetamines – E, ecstasy, MDMA
• Amphetamines – dexies, speed, uppers, whiz,
• Opiates – heroin, morphine codeine
• Benzodiazepines – downers, tranx
• Methadone

Home drugs tests

The main varieties of drug test are urine drugs test, saliva drugs tests and hair drugs tests, each test shows different time frames of usage; hair tests show usage over longer periods of time, urine tests show usage within days and saliva sample tests show if drugs have been used within hours.

There are various varieties of home kits for testing drugs available to purchase; there are single cassette urine tests, which are sometimes used to test for drugs such as cocaine, to test for cannabis and opiate testing etc. There are drug test cups which test for various forms of drugs all in one go, there are also saliva drug tests which also tests for various variations of drug. There are also hair drug test which can test for lots of of drugs, inconveniently these are usually costly and they cannot be done at home.

What can you do if you think someone you know is in danger of taking drugs?

Primarily it is probably best to have a sit down with them and talk to them about it, remain calm and tell them that you are worried about their health. If the individual denies taking drugs but you still have a strong belief that they are, suggest that they do a drugs test to confirm they don’t take drugs. Unfortunately, if they do take drugs they are unlikely to do it voluntarily and unfortunately all these tests depend upon the individual’s cooperation. In this situation it is best to speak to an expert.