At a private faith-based addiction recovery house, do they watch you urinate when drug tested?

Published January 5, 2011

Question by The Webbiest: At a private faith-based addiction recovery house, do they watch you urinate when drug tested?
My son will be staying at a place called Faith House, run by a church group for ex-felons and recovering drug addicts and alcoholics. There are 14 guys and a live-in house manager. He said they told him he will be randomly tested for drugs once or twice a week. He wants to know if they will send him to a bathroom for the sample or if they will watch the urine come out of him (I honestly think it’s more because of bladder shyness that he’s worried)
I don’t do drugs, Rosetta. Never even done marijuana. How about you?

Best answer:

Answer by Michael W
I believe it will be at the discretion of the counselor at Faith House. I would suggest that your son will definitely be monitored during the sample, in order to maintain the chain of custody for the sample.

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