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False positives plague drug tests by Bexar probation

Not every actual innocence case involves murders, rapes, or other heinous crimes. In San Antonio, between 2/3 and 3/4 of positive urine tests from the Bexar probation department resulted in false accusations of drug use, Greg Harman at the SA Current reports ("Urine trouble," Feb. 12). Even so, but the department still doesn't offer routine confirmation when probationers test positive:Almost immediately after closing their in-house drug lab, Bexar Probation began receiving startlingly high numbers of positive drug results from its chosen cup sniffer, Treatment Associates. Suspicions were raised.Since the original contract between the County and TA provided for free confirmation testing via the industry?s leading technology ? gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, or simply GC-MS ? some of those early positives were apparently shipped for confirmation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).