Chuff
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2001
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I am increasingly encountering people who are having hair strand tests, usually from social services as evidence to remove/not remove a child to care and there seems to only be one company in the Uk delivering this service and they are reluctant to discuss false positives or the level of accuracy of their product.
putting aside the very serious issues of does taking drugs make one an unfit parent (No it fucking dosen't) and the predjuices evident in some social workers around this, many clients do lie, understandably about their drug use to social services, social services can then use a hair strand test to proove a client has lied undermining any progress they may have made regarding problematic drug use.
so my question is does anybody have any evidence about the levels of accuracy of hair strand testing either in the Uk or the USA (or anywhere else) any info on false positives etc etc.
thanks
Cliff
putting aside the very serious issues of does taking drugs make one an unfit parent (No it fucking dosen't) and the predjuices evident in some social workers around this, many clients do lie, understandably about their drug use to social services, social services can then use a hair strand test to proove a client has lied undermining any progress they may have made regarding problematic drug use.
so my question is does anybody have any evidence about the levels of accuracy of hair strand testing either in the Uk or the USA (or anywhere else) any info on false positives etc etc.
thanks
Cliff