Drug screening for the courts

A social worker of the State, once said to us: "We see at the cocaine levels in the time, and whenever in general, to keep on going down for one month or this way, we can say to the court that the client is doing progresses". Little is known about this worker to whom the cocaine is not detectable in the urine after three days. His client, who gave positive five days after the positive of the initial test, had been re-used in the acting person, but the court one gave him wrong information.

Similar way, a judge said to us that it uses the notified levels of canabanoide (marijuana) in a similar way, if the levels are going down testee it abstains. The levels are a function of a series of factors like the diet, the ingestion of liquids, the exercise, and others. Levels can fluctuate up or below with the continuous use. When he informed the judge that the method that it was using was not valid, he answered: "I know, but what more exists?" In fact, there exists a technology that they allow to measure the marijuana consumption without reporting of the last positives for the previous use. It is called orally the test liquids. Few persons in the judicial system are conscious of the tests of oral fluids and those that are often they are informed badly about his accuracy.
Then he was the umpire who insisted on an alcoholemia test instead of an alcohol screen in the urine for a client who was proscribed of the alcohol consumption - then it gave to him 24 hours to expire. The umpire, seemingly, did not know that they can be detected the presence of alcohol in the urine the time after they can be detected by means of the use of a Breathalyzer. And in any case, the alcohol in the urine is undetectable for any technology, after 24 hours.

There was also the case of the judge who arranged a hair screen, the test for "all the substances" in an individual. The judge did not realize that only it is possible to put itself to the test during five specific substances across hair detection, he nor realized that any type of test for all the substances "would cost to the state his thousands of dollars.

The courts are in the business of search of the truth. Pleaded, and those who are entrusted to provide the tests or testimonies before the court it is forced to provide a good information. Turned out from drugs detection to provide precise information, but less that the appropriate technology is used and the analysis of the resultant information is in target, can give place to bad decisions. We wait that this article to throw light on some common erroneous concepts, and to give impulse to the additional education in this area forensic criticism.

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