Can a Home Drug Test Kit Get Activated by Second-Hand Smoke?
If you’ve seen what you think might be the signs of drug use or symptoms of drug use in your teen and administered a home drug test kit, then you wouldn’t be the first parent to hear your teen tell you that they didn’t smoke marijuana and that they were the only one in a room full of friends who didn’t do it. If your teen tells you that the reason for the result on their home drug test kit was “second hand smoke” then I hope you don’t mind if I point out the obvious and suggest that the first thing you should consider doing is asking them what they were doing in a room full of people possessing and using illegal drugs in the first place. Next, you should realize that the home drug test kits are calibrated to recognize the presence of drugs at concentration levels high enough that “second hand smoke” shouldn’t set them off. Kids will keep using the “second hand smoke” excuse as long as parents keep falling for it. If your teen is particularly convincing and continues to insist that they
