Presumptive drug tests are often used as initial screens to identify if a drug is present. Most medical professionals will use a presumptive test as a screen because they are inexpensive but less ...

Tens of thousands of people are wrongfully arrested for crimes based on a false positive result from a field drug test each year, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of ...

Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested and jailed because of police departments' widespread use of unreliable roadside field tests for drugs, according to a study released ...

The drug test used in NY prisons was designed to serve merely as a presumptive test, producing preliminary results that require a laboratory confirmation, inspectors found. But most other states using ...

A family-owned independent Pennsylvania laboratory has been ordered to pay $7.3 million dollars to the New Jersey Medicaid program after an audit by the State Comptroller’s Office revealed the company ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has said that the department discovered field-testing kits for cocaine indicated false positives. In a statement released by JSO, during a drug ...

Dr. Joshua Schrecker, Pharm.D., is the director of Clinical Affairs at Aegis Sciences Corporation. While the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated headlines for the past two years, an ...

John (whose name we’ve changed to protect his privacy) is a formerly incarcerated patient with an opioid use disorder who was actively engaged in outpatient treatment. During a primary care visit, he ...

Faulty drug tests given to thousands of California prisoners gave false results for opiates Prison advocates worry that the false positive results have tainted the parole decision for inmates.