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Unconfirmed UAs aren't accurate but used anyway

After all the allegations that the Bexar County probation department made supervision decisions based on faulty, unconfirmed urinalysis tests, I was interested to see a USA Today story ("False results put drug tests under the microscope," Nov. 3) reported by scribe Mimi Hall describing the same problem with a national scope, the:use of unreliable field drug-test kits as the basis to arrest innocent people on illegal drug charges. The inexpensive test kits are used by virtually every police department in the country and by federal agents, including Customs officers at the nation's borders. The kits test suspicious materials, and a positive result generally leads to an arrest and court date, pending more sophisticated tests done after the sample is sent to a lab...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).