Breakout 3 | Substance abuse testing: What is available, what does it tell us, and what do we do with the information

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We will examine what is available to screen for alcohol and illegal substance usage, what the test results tell us as far as frequency of usage and what steps can be put in place to ensure that parent and child can spend time together while ensuring the child is safe.

Takeaways:

• The different types of tests that are available and approximate cost.
• What the test results actually mean as far as the parent's usage of substances.
• Dispell the myths in drug testing.
• Parenting Plans to allow contact between a child and impaired/previously impaired parent.

Speaker: Cynthia L. Albin, Todt, Cody, Albin & Fuchs, LLC, St. Louis

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