For attorneys & GALs
Forensic vs. diagnostic testing, the laboratory report vs. the MRO report, and how to match hair, urine, PEth, and sweat-patch testing to the question your case is actually asking.
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Give this to your client
A short, neutral explainer to hand a client: why a court-ordered test is different from a clinic visit, why chain of custody matters, and what to do first — so their result actually counts.
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Hair & nail testing
What the 90-day window really covers, what a positive does and doesn't establish, why environmental exposure cuts differently in family court, and how the panel named in an order decides the cost.
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When hair isn't there
The same panels as hair over a longer window — fingernails to about six months, toenails up to twelve. When nails are the right call, where they're weaker, and what an order has to say before hair runs out.
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Testing a child, not a parent
A hair test run on the child rather than the parent, built to separate what was merely in the home from what the child's body actually processed — and what a court can and can't take from it.
How Child Guard works →
Alcohol, not drugs
What a PEth number can and can't establish about drinking, why the same result gets read two different ways in court, and what to check before relying on one.
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