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Are home-based drug testing kits useful?

by Erin Graham on December 2, 2009

Children’s Director of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program, Sharon Levy, MD, MPH, appears on the MSNBC show “Dr. Nancy” to discuss how home-based drug tests for teens may not be effective.

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