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Talking About Testing

How do I approach my teenage kids about drug testing?

Approaching your kids about drug testing can be delicate but can lead to a safer and healthier life.

Here are some tips on how to start a conversation:

  1. Start by consulting your pediatrician and tell them that you are considering random drug, alcohol and nicotine testing with your kids with samples collected at home but tested at a HIPPA compliant and CLIA certified laboratory.
  2. Choose the right time-find a calm moment when you and the kids have time to talk and are not busy. Avoid bringing it up during an argument.
  3. Be non-judgmental and start the discussion by expressing your concern and love. Avoid accusing or blaming them and calmly express why you want to take precautions such as protecting them from driving after having ingested any substance. Share with them the risks of drug, alcohol and nicotine use. Discuss the impact on health, relationships, school, future goals. Driving is a big responsibility and using marijuana or drinking while driving can have lifelong consequences.
  4. Set boundaries and clearly communicate your expectations regarding drug, alcohol and nicotine use but be respectful. Explain that random testing will enable you to have peace of mind and to help them make the best decision when offered the opportunity to use drugs, alcohol and nicotine.
  5. Confirm that these tests are anonymous and that the samples will be provided at home. This will avoid unnecessary embarrassment and help ensure their cooperation.
  6. Offer support and encourage them to tell you if they have or are considering using any drugs, alcohol and nicotine and let them know that this sort of revelation will not result in punishment but rather discussion and guidance.

Testing Home Health Care Providers, Au Pair’s and Nannies

It is always best to address drug, alcohol and nicotine testing prior to hiring your care giver. But if you want to begin testing care providers already working for you the following may be helpful talking points which can also be used during your pre-hire interview.

  1. Schedule a private meeting and begin by expressing your appreciation for their work and dedication.
  2. Cleary state that the purpose of random drug, alcohol and if necessary, nicotine testing is to insure the safety of those being cared for and when the providers are using the family automobiles.
  3. Emphasize that the testing is not about mistrust but rather an opportunity for you to have peace of mind.
  4. Describe the circumstances under which you will test them.
    • Explain that such tests will be done confidentially and at your home.
    • That sample will be provided entirely by the test subject with complete privacy.
    • After the sample is provided pursuant with instructions that accompany the Family Box. It can be placed directly into the return envelope which can be given to you for shipping.
    • This will avoid embarrassment by never requiring them to have to provide you with anything other than an envelope in which they have placed the sample. The fact that it is random will prevent them from not providing an accurate sample. The test will even determine if the sample has been diluted with water.
  5. Remember, a respectful and empathetic approach will help address concerns and objections allowing cooperation by the care giver being tested.

Employer Discussions with Employees for Random Drug Testing

  1. Family Wellness Box provides small businesses the opportunity to affordably be protected from potentially crippling liability.
  2. The cost of paying your employees to go to a lab and the high cost of such testing will create a significant expense to have your employees participate in drug and alcohol testing. Using Family Wellness Box to do random laboratory drug and alcohol testing of your employees will avoid the cost of sending your employee to a lab and result in a much lower test cost of $80 per test for 74 drugs, in addition to alcohol and if necessary, nicotine which includes all standard shipping cost.
  3. It is always best to address drug, alcohol and nicotine testing prior to hiring your employee. But if you want to begin testing current employees the following may be helpful talking points which can also be used during your pre-hire interview. Also check with your legal counsel and confirm that the laws in your state allow for testing and what regulations will be required.
  • Assure your employees that the drug tests will be confidential and non-invasive.
  • Highlight that this is not about mistrust but rather a way to protect them and the company, which protects all of the employees from liability and thus everybody’s source of income and security.
  • Let them know that all employees will be subject to the testing.
  • This will avoid embarrassment by never requiring them to have to provide you with anything other than an envelope in which they have placed the sample. The fact that it is random will prevent them from not providing an accurate sample. The test will even determine if the sample has been diluted with water.

Senior Executives and Professionals:

In cases of certain professionals’ licensure may require a guided or even regulatory response to using drugs and alcohol.

  1. In cases when no regulatory guidelines exist or prior to circumstances that may require regulatory guidance, the following may help keep existing important executives and professionals safe, healthy and productive while being accountable.
  2. It is important that senior executives and professionals be provided an opportunity to regain the confidence of the firm and coworkers through accountability in a way that will not create embarrassment or garner resistance because of public facing exposure to the challenges they face.
  3. Choose the Right Setting-private and professional to maintain an environment of respect while emphasizing confidentiality.
  4. Be able to identify specific, productivity, safety and potential legal issues that are associated with their use of legal and illegal drugs or alcohol.
  5. The conversation should be respectful in tone and non-confrontational. But also, the purpose of the conversation should be clear with out the use of overly technical language.
  6. Emphasize how drug and alcohol testing can provide them a platform to not only reflect their commitment to remaining on the team but also how it can enhance their safety at and beyond the workplace and insure the highest level of productivity.
  7. Focus on the benefits of them participating in a highly confidential testing program and the solutions that it provides.
  8. Offer support and offer to explore other resources to help them achieve success with their challenges related to legal and illegal drug and alcohol use.

Couples, Divorce, Child Custody:

For couples going through a divorce that may be experiencing uncertainty with child custody due to drug or alcohol abuse or even nicotine, and their lawyers, will find Family Wellness Box to be an affordable and convenient tool to achieve common trust and maintain accountability. This can help save legal fees by allowing the participants and lawyers to utilize the opportunity to participate in collaborative family law efforts and keep this type of testing away from the court system.

  • This testing can be mutually confidential and non-invasive. The testing box can be randomly provided to the testing subject. The sample will be provided entirely by the test subject with complete privacy. After the sample is provided pursuant with instructions that accompany the Family Box, it can be placed directly into the return envelope which can be given to you for shipping
  • • This will avoid embarrassment by never requiring them to provide the other with anything other than an envelope in which they have placed the sample. The fact that it is random will prevent them from not providing an accurate sample. The test will even determine if the sample has been diluted with water.

The suggestions of possible talking points contained on this page are not recommended by Family Wellness Box, LLC. Before embarking on such conversations each person should contact their health care provider or in the case if employers their own legal representatives.

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