Picking a Home Drug Test

Video Transcript

"Part of choosing what drug test is going to be right for you and your use in the home is of course the reason for which you are going to be using it. A common reason for people to purchase a drug test is when a parent or parents have concerns about their child using drugs, or when a spouse has concern about another spouse using drugs. One of the major differences between using a test that requires a urine sample and using a home test that only requires a cheek swab is that the chain of custody, as we would say in the medical or law enforcement field, needs to be preserved with the urine sample. It's possible for somebody to adulter or treat a urine sample after the fact to possibly skew the test results or to trigger a false positive, a false negative in the test. Or even prior to that it is possible for someone to take a number of over the counter purchasable products that are designed to clean the urine of drug residue or mask any drug residue that might be in the urine. This can be an issue for a parent who may not be to terribly comfortable with watching their child pee in front of them to make sure that they're not swapping out the urine or using another persons urine or adding an adulterant. So for somebody who is looking to test a child or spouse to see whether or not they're using drugs a cheek swab may be more advisable. But in this case I'm testing myself and if you're testing yourself out of your own concern, a urine test should be just fine."