Pubdate: Wed, 10 Apr 2002
Source: Cape Cod Times (MA)
Copyright: 2002 Cape Cod Times
Contact:  http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/72
Author: Loren Charif
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n676/a01.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Testing)

PREMISE QUESTIONABLE IN ARTICLE ON DRUG TEST

In your April 7 article "When the test fails," and in the headline, you 
allege that the drug test has failed, and that the reliability of the 
testimony of a known drug user and several "witnesses" (who were friends of 
the deceased) who had four days to get their stories straight, is more 
reliable than a carefully supervised laboratory- controlled test that was 
taken immediately the next morning.

Do you really believe what you wrote? It absolutely defies common sense!

I suggest that the testimony doesn't call the test results into doubt but, 
rather, that the test results call the testimony into doubt.

LOREN CHARIF

Centerville
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