My 13 year old step-son is hooked on this stuff bad. His much older cousin got him started smoking it and I'm very worried about him. There is some kind of chemical in this stuff that developing teenagers with out of control hormones do not need to smoke this stuff. If anyone has a way to get him to quit cause we've tried everything, and if there is a drug test I could give him once we get him off it to make sure he has quit. He's only 13 and I've battled alcohol, coke, and oxycodone and managed to beat them all with the help of suboxone. I know if we took him to rehab they would laugh at us when there are people spending hundreds a day on much harder drugs would need a bed first. We are lost and need help to get our son back that would ride dirt bikes from daylight to dark that has went to *****ing when he wakes up if he don't have a bowl to wake up to. Help us we really need it.

As an LPN don't you have contacts in the medical field, someone you can talk to? An addiction specialist treats all types of addictions - have you tried one?

Where is he getting the money to buy the fake weed?

There are tests for about 5 types of the product when last checked (all lab based)... but at the present time none are worth using because there are 100s of variations of the product(s). I haven't checked in about 60 days so will talk with a couple of research labs about current status. I was asked about this same issue yesterday by two Medical Review Officers (MRO) facing the problem of locating capable testing facilities.

In most areas you will find significant medical interest in these cannabimimetics. The dangers far exceed those associated with cannabis use due primarily to the unknown contents.

Following is website for US Food and Drug Administration that reviews in-home, point-of-collection, and OTC drug tests. Here you can enter drug type or various other data and obtain a list of products as well as performance characteristics:

Go to > FDA Drugs of Abuse Tests (http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/InVitroDiagnostics/DrugsofAbuseTests/default.htm)

I found no tests currently approved, but you may wish to check for yourself.