DBL: Parents Drug Testing Children: 8 September 2009
Written by camilla on September 8, 2009 – 2:32 am -In July 2009, a US-based bioscience company launched online sales of their drug testing kit, Hair Confirm, in Australia. Parents can now take samples of their children’s hair and have them tested for cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy use in the last three months.
There are concerns parents will do this without their children’s consent, which has resulted in criticism of the testing kit from civil liberties groups and drug counsellors.
However – the proposed testing kit also raises a number of legal issues about the rights of children to consent to, and know about, medical testing on themselves, their access to medical records and what happens to children if they test positive to drugs via this testing method.
Tonight we are joined by Professor Loane Skene, a specialist in health and medical law, and Annie Davis from Youth Law to discuss these issues.
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