Drug Testing in Your Living Room

She is never quite sure when it will happen.

Sometimes it’s first thing in the morning. Sometimes it’s after she comes home from a friend’s house at night. Once it happened when one of her best friends was over and the two were sitting quietly at the computer. Now matter what she’s doing, 15-year-old Taylor Hancock knows at any moment there is a chance her mother will hand her a plastic cup, send her to the bathroom to urninate in it, then dip little tabs into the liquid to check whether the ninth-grader has been using drugs. [Full Story]

View a PDF of the full article: The Wall Street Journal – Drug testing in your living room – June 2, 2005

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Breathalyzers like these are being used to test for alcohol at school events. Photo by Michael Conroy, AP

High schools to test students for alcohol

It was getting so that few teachers at Westwood High School in suburban Boston wanted to chaperone school dances. There were drunken quarrels and dramas. At one school event, a student was rushed to the hospital with alcohol poisoning. [Full Story]

Also covered in CNN, Yahoo! News, MSNBC, New York Newsday, Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Fresno Bee and Phillyburbs.com.

View a PDF of the article: CNN – High schools to test students for alcohol – April 22, 2005

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Know Your Limits

AlcoHawk Elite » Cold temperatures can skew a breathalyzer’s reading lower; hot vice-versa. This tester uses a thermometer to gauge whether results will be funky and, if so, informs the user on the LCD.
$100 » q3ats.com

View a PDF of the article: Popular Science Magazine – Know Your Limits – April 2005

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Portable breathalyzer gets FDA nod

Just pucker up and blow.

That’s all you need to do to take advantage of a new gadget that might come in handy when you’re wondering whether either you or your companion should be driving home from the party.

The Alcohawk ABI is a hand-held digital breathalyzer that advertises itself as “the only FDA-cleared screener on the market.”

A “state of the art semiconductor oxide sensor” on the gadget allows you to test your personal fumes or those of your family or friends in three seconds, according to Alcohawk press materials.

The device runs on a 9-volt battery (included) or plugs into a car dashboard power source.  Its “one button and blow” operation can read blood alcohol up to .40 — which, by the way, is over the New Jersey limit of .08.  The Alcohawk is about $100 on line at Target and The Sharper Image. — Kathleen Shea

View a PDF of the article: The Star-Ledger – Portable breathalyzer gets FDA nod – Feb 23, 2005

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None for the road

There’s still time to buy an Aclohawk ABI Digital Breath Alcohol Screener for your Super Bowl party.

You could use this handheld device on friends and family who have had too much to drink but insist they can drive home.

The Alcohawk is a professional-grade breath alcohol screener cleared by the Food and Drug Administration and approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

It passes accuracy standards required by federal transportation agencies.

A 9-volt battery, included, powers the breath alcohol screener for about 300 uses. It also plugs into a car dashboard power socket.

The Alcohawk uses a semiconductor oxide sensor to measure breath alcohol content quickly and accurately.  A user simply presses a button, blows into the mouthpiece and waits just three seconds for a number to appear.

It is sold at Sharper Image stores for $99.95.  If you can’t get to a store, look for online sources at www.q3i.com.

View a PDF of the article: The Courier-Journal – None for the road – Feb 3, 2005

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