More and more high schools are taking it upon themselves to be watchdogs for student drug and alcohol abuse. Random drug and alcohol high school testing is becoming more and more common in American high schools across the state. Using new drug and alcohol testing technology makes it harder for students to tamper with the results or use some other device to deter the outcome.
New findings discovered by a team of English and German scientists at Trimega Laboratories have found a way to test for alcohol abuse up to a 12 month history. Meaning, instead of using a urine sample from a student to test for drugs or alcohol, schools can randomly choose a student who will then provide a sample of scalp hair to go through a series of tests to determine how much alcohol and drugs have been consumed, as well as the last time they consumed them.
EtG alchol testing testing, EtG or ethyl glucuronide, is a sensitive test using a urine sample but it will only prove up to 80 days of drug and alcohol use, with hair alcohol testing, up to 12 months of use can be found. Some parents and students find this kind of […]

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