About
Dr. Brown's System
The concept of a home drug testing system is quite different than traditional drug testing or drug free workplace testing. One of the most important distinctions is that it is more appropriately defined as a coordinated "System" of services, rather than just drug testing with the latter representing one of a basic menu of services (i.e. education, training, risk evaluation, incentives, online results retrieval and online audio/visual (A/V) "real time" conferencing.
Why the product/system was created?
- The war on drugs has been a failure for the last fifty years.
- Prison incarceration, AA and NA, therapeutic Communities, and other drug substitute and addiction(i.e. Methodone, Suboxone) have been the primary options for treatment.
- The responsibility for addressing the problem has been deferred to law enforcement, schools, and health providers.
- There is a shortage of health providers and facilities.
- Health Insurance coverage is limited and ineffective.
- Private treatment is very expensive and usually no more effective in preventing relapse to drug use.
- Drug abuse testing is a documented means of deterrence and early detection.
- Substance abuse and mental health still have a strong social stigma.
- There is a national epidemic of substance abuse that is not being effected by traditional interventions.
- Empowering families with the home drug testing system is a necessary option to prevent substance abuse, maximize the benefits of treatment, and maintain substance abuse abstinence.
What makes this system different?
- It encourages voluntary participation.
- It emphasizes therapeutic objective (i.e. the purpose being to prevent drug abuse, not establish a legal basis for punishment).
- The identity of the person tested is anonymous – names are never used.
- The children's prevention program is especially innovative in providing anti-substance abuse services for ages 5-10. It is a unique primary prevention program that should be very helpful to child health care specialists.
The course is designed to give mental health and health professionals a basic education on substance abuse and provide:
- A basic education on substances of abuse, their use, and effect.
- A different perspective on how to manage substance abusers.
- A different set of options and strategies for evaluating, deterring and early detection of substance abuse.
- An option for getting the substance abuser's family and concerned others involved in the education, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse without them feeling or being perceived as adversaries.
- Confidence in a resource that they can use and refer to their patients and other health professionals.
- Access to services that can be integrated into their practice and used to address the substance abuse problem at work, at school, and within the privacy of the home.