I do. It's called American Politics. Also, here is a rehash of one of my posts and a list of several others listed below. Please review at your leisure.
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The Following Post #4245 on 04/28/15 11:06:24 PM
The Long Walk of Roadside Saliva Testing and US Federal Law
An excerpt from a Q & A with Dr. Marilyn Huestis, Chief of Chemistry and Drug Metabolism Section of NIDA's Intramural Research Program:
Q: What are some examples of practical applications of your work?
Dr. Huestis: When we know how the body metabolizes and excretes a drug, we can create tools and set windows for drug detection. We can design programs to suit the drug testing requirements of clinicians, employers, police, and other users.
For example, we have created models that clinicians can use to tell when the drug use occurred that has caused a patient’s blood or urine test to be positive. This information can be crucial for choosing the right clinical response, because it may distinguish whether the patient has had a brand new relapse or has residual drug in his system from an earlier relapse. It also enables the clinician to better help the patient pinpoint the triggers: Where were you at that time? Who were you with? What caused your craving?
Drugged driving is a major public safety problem in our country. We are conducting controlled drug studies to evaluate devices to identify drugged drivers—their validity and windows for drug detection. We anticipate that in the near future, police will pull someone over who is driving dangerously and give him a Breathalyzer test for alcohol and a saliva test for opiates, amphetamines, cocaine, and marijuana.
To give a sense of the time requirements of some of this work, we started studying drug disposition in oral fluid 1994. We expect that oral fluid will be approved for federally mandated drug testing later this year or next year.
What I take away for above Q & A excerpt dated September 23, 2013 is two issues:
1. Breath Testing is already a well established and accepted method across the board and a THC breathalyzer is the - hands down - logical choice for law enforcement.
2. Although Saliva Testing has been around for decades, the same legal hurdles exist today. Dr. Huestis own prediction of Saliva Testing becoming federal law by 2014 has not happened. I predict it will never happen due to Fourth Amendment hurdles. Where will that leave Saliva Test Competition?
Here's a hypothetical question for all - What if our multi-feature breathalyzer can also detect opiates, amphetamines, cocaine, etc?
I'm trying to catch my Breath(Tec) just thinking about it.
Just my blunt opinion,
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www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2013/09/q-dr-marilyn-hues
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Also see post # 4004, 4000, 4026, 4492, 4489, 4487, 4155, 4016, 4010, 4002. There are others - but why keep beating a dead horse?
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