Drug Test Your Teen (www.drugtestyourteen.com) is asking for your help in raising awareness about teen drug abuse prevention. Responsible parents need to be alerted that they can stop or even prevent teen drug, alcohol, and tobacco use by testing at home.

by Anonymous

March 30, 2004--Drug Test Your Teen (www.drugtestyourteen.com) is asking for your help in raising awareness about teen drug abuse prevention. Responsible parents need to be alerted that they can stop or even prevent teen drug, alcohol, and tobacco use by testing at home.A child that is tested at home may never even try drugs when they know that their parents take drug use so seriously that they keep tests in the house and will use them at will.

The President wants to allot $23 million tax dollars to be given to schools so that they can drug test our kids. Kim Hildreth, owner of Drug Test Your Teen states, “While that may be necessary in some cases, parents need to be made aware that they can accurately and inexpensively test at home for most street drugs, alcohol use, and even cigarette smoking. Wouldn’t they rather handle these problems at home, before having a teenagers school record tarnished with a positive drug test result?” All of the anti- drug campaigns say to “find out if your kids are using drugs”, but parents are not given information on how to do this.

Ms. Hildreth and her two teenage daughters are making it their life’s work to try to get parents to pull their heads out of the sand and hear their message. “We hear from parents everyday that refuse to believe that the drugs they found in their teenagers bedroom belonged to their kid!” says Linzy Hildreth, 17-year-old President of Drug Test Your Teen. No parent wants to believe that it is “their kid”. Statistics prove that most parents with teens in rehab did not have a clue that their child was using drugs, or chose to ignore a “feeling” because they simply did not want to believe it was true.

“Testing early for “gateway drugs” is a great deterrent for young teens,” says Delaney Hildreth, 15, who became involved with drugs at the age of 12. “As a kid, I can tell you absolutely that the kids who smoke cigarettes lead you to the kids that drink, and the kids that drink lead you to the kids who do drugs”. Delaney’s mom thought she was too young to need to be tested at the age of 12, before drugs nearly ruined Delaney’s life and Kim realized the truth. “She told such convincing stories, and I wanted to believe the best”.

The Hildreth’s need help getting their message out- letting everyone with a teen or pre-teen learn that that home drug testing available, and that it works as a deterrent to drug abuse.