| Imagine you're a policeman, sitting at a road block. | | | | longer. Now there are other options besides urine |
| You're bored out of your mind. There's not much to | | | | alcohol testing. Yes, thanks to advances in medical |
| do at a roadblock but sit around and wait for people | | | | genome technology, we now have the option of |
| to come past. Of course it depends on the type of | | | | performing a hair alcohol test. |
| roadblock. It could be one of those roadblocks setup | | | | Multiple hair product companies found that one of the |
| to perform urine alcohol testing urine alcohol testing, | | | | biggest obstacles to treating hair was the residual |
| or it could be one of those more exciting roadblocks, | | | | alcohol left over in hair after a lovely night of some |
| you know, one of those roadblocks set to capture a | | | | sweet partying. This is a bigger obstacle to hair care |
| fugitive from the law, and help them out. | | | | than dandruff, hair dying, or even baldness. Alcohol |
| It's a known fact that most fugitives are very nice, | | | | levels aren't constant, but rather vary from day to |
| friendly people, who accidentally did something | | | | day depending on how much alcohol you've drunk the |
| wrong, something like going through the grocery | | | | night before making them more difficult to counter. |
| store at four in the morning, trying to find banana | | | | Then one day, the CEO of a major hair product |
| bread with anchovies in it for their pregnant wife. | | | | company had dinner with the chief of police from |
| They're strolling around the produce section, and | | | | Cuba, Missouri. (Yes, there is a Cuba, Missouri., and |
| they casually grab an apple, in their sleepy state they | | | | yes, the chief of police from there is very well |
| just take a bite of it, "Oh my gosh! That's | | | | known in the upper echelons of hair product CEOs) |
| disgustingly crisp and juicy!" they cry, and set it back | | | | Soon the Cuba, Missouri Police Chief talked about the |
| down, and leave it there. Next thing they know, the | | | | woes of urine alcohol testing, the CEO talked about |
| produce police ask to talk to them, and they panic, | | | | the woes of alcohol content in hair, and they came |
| and run for the exit, jump in their car and speed | | | | up with the beautiful idea of alcohol hair testing. |
| away. And so the police setup a roadblock, trying to | | | | They did some research, and what they found is |
| help the poor fugitive out, and help the fugitive get | | | | that the body uses hair as a natural method for |
| that anchovy banana bread back to their wife. | | | | alcohol expulsion. It's related to the way that cooling |
| However, this isn't that kind of roadblock. It's just | | | | elements work on computer processors, in that it |
| your one of your typical, run of the mill, urine alcohol | | | | provides more surface area for interaction with the |
| testing roadblocks. | | | | air, allowing the alcohol to evaporate readily and |
| Urine alcohol testing is one of the more tedious parts | | | | disperse into the surrounding environment. Using this |
| of a cop's job. Think about it, here you are, this huge | | | | knowledge, and multiple tests performed to |
| powerful cop, with the ability to arrest people for | | | | determine the normal level of alcohol hair content, |
| spitting on the sidewalk, and you're reduced to being | | | | police are now starting to do away with urine alcohol |
| a urine sampler. And it's boring all around. You make | | | | testing in favor of the hair alcohol test. c |
| someone pee in a cup, they come back, you go test | | | | And police everywhere are rejoicing because of the |
| it, and you may or may not arrest them. Even the | | | | simplicity of "One strand of your hair please" when |
| people taking the little test think to themselves, "Oh | | | | compared to "Please urinate in this cup for the |
| gee, the cup again. How quaint." | | | | purpose of urine alcohol testing". And it's about time |
| You may not need to do this degrading test any | | | | too, I was sick of peeing in that little cup. |