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Parents Hiring Drug-Sniffing Dogs

MARYLAND (CBS) - Police have been using K-9's to help fight the war on drugs for years.

Now, a Maryland company is taking one of them to the home front.

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For $150, Honda will sniff for drugs in your kid's room.

Her trainer marks any hits with blue tape and lets the homeowner deal with the situation.

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Chris Itnyre says it's quicker and more thorough than parents searching on their own.

"We find stuff inside AAA batteries, cigarette packs, rolled up socks. Unless you have a whole entire day to go through every single article in the room, you're not going to find it. The dog will come in and in 2 to 3 minutes find it, and we're done," said Itnyre with K-9 Protection and Detection.

Itnyre hopes with Honda's help he can save lives and help put an end to the opioid epidemic

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