Colorado has become the first state in the nation to prohibit arrests based solely on colorimetric drug tests, also known as field drug tests. Last legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill ...

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Colorado has become the first state to pass a law banning an arrest based solely on a colorimetric drug test, a common tool ...

Colorado became the first state to restrict police use of colorimetric drug tests due to high false positive rates following ...

Investigations have found that hospitals and child protective services (CPS) agencies often rely on drug screening tests with false-positive rates reported to be as high as 50%. Despite this, results ...

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A false positive test misidentifying baking soda as a mixture of fentanyl and horse tranquilizer is what landed a Pennsylvania man in a notorious New York prison for two weeks, the state Attorney ...

A view of the East Block at San Quentin. Thousands of drug tests given to California inmates gave false results last year. Prison advocates worry that parole decisions were tainted. (Robert Gauthier / ...

A disabled grandmother charged after a drug test showed cocaine in her purse. A college football star arrested for drug ...

Poppy seeds are one of the most well-known culprits behind false positive drug tests. These tiny seeds come from the same plant that produces opium, and they can contain trace amounts of morphine and ...

Colorado has become the first state to ban arrests based solely on a field drug test widely used by law enforcement across ...