(Update: Drug charges dismissed but new indictment will be sought) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Charges have been dropped against a Bend man accused of selling a variety of illegal “party drugs” from his home ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

September 28, 2023 – Rigaku Analytical Devices announces the launch of the handheld CQL Narc-ID 1064 nm Raman analyzer for the presumptive identification of narcotics, precursor chemicals, and cutting ...

Thousands of inmates wrongly tested positive for opiate use inside California state prisons last year because of a laboratory mistake, and civil rights attorneys now worry many of them could be denied ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will no longer use cocaine field testing kits after learning they return false positives for some common over-the-counter medications. In a memo ...

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.