Why Some Parents Are Volunteering to Take a Hair Alcohol Test

While some parents would rather avoid taking any sort of test that may put them in an unfavorable light or exploit them in a way that would judge their “parenting skills”, the recent hair alcohol test, developed by a team of English and German scientists, is a test that some parents are thrilled to comply with.

The hair alcohol test is exactly how it sounds: a test that proves whether or not you have abused alcohol by using your scalp hair as a sample. Unlike urine alcohol testing, which can only prove whether or not you have abused alcohol within a very small time frame of a week, with significant dilution hindrances affecting the test results, a hair alcohol test can prove notably longer time frame of abuse.

So why are parents eager to comply with this type of test? The hair alcohol test can disprove that someone has a history of alcohol abuse. Say a spouse gave false accusations about the other parent or legal guardian of a child that they were abusing drugs and alcohol and therefore was “not fit” to have custody of the child. A hair alcohol test taken by that person will show up to 12 months of abuse or lack of abuse by a per-month status. Using ethyl glucuronide, (EtG) alcohol testing technology, no other test in the world can give detailed results for hair alcohol testing. EtG alcohol testing allows a scientist to segment testing into months of abuse unlike previous FAEE, testing alone- which only shows alcohol dependency. FAEE or fatty acid ethyl ethers is a patented forensic process which reveals markers that are only exposed if a person has consumed alcohol. The more alcohol consumed the greater amount of FAEE and EtG markers become present in the hair.

This remarkable hair alcohol test is approved in the United States and British courts as viable evidence for proving or disproving whether a person is an abuser of alcohol or is not.

Besides innocent parents accused of being alcoholics, employers for all types of companies who perform drug testing, high school counselors and sports authorities are eager to use this new alcohol testing device to prove or disprove alcohol abuse over a long term basis of a person that was not previously possible before.

Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist for Innuity. For more information about a hair alcohol test, go to www.hairalcoholtesting.com.