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

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

Q3 Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce that on May 1, 2005 it will be releasing the AlcoHAWK® Elite to its AlcoHAWK® Series line of breath alcohol screening devices. The AlcoHAWK® Elite includes the same enhanced features contained in the AlcoHAWK® Precision, but also incorporates an innovative four-digit blue lit LCD display and a new temperature sensor to monitor whether testing is performed in the optimal temperature range.