Re: virus: Forwarding the forwards

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Just because you are clean doesn't mean that you will test clean.

Earlier this year, I was suspended from school for alcohol (all based on hearsay, nobody saw us, but had to confess and get suspended for a week, or be expelled if we wouldn't admit to it) But while suspended we had to go to our local drug rehabilitation institution and have assessments and UAs.

The only thing I had that may have shown up in the UA was alcohol. I didn't do any narcotics (in fact, I've never done any of those nice little illegal drugs)

A few days later when I received the results for my UA said I had methamphetamines, alcohol, marijuana and several other random substances which I can't recall.

I'm not on any medication, haven't been for years so the methamphetamines weren't there, I'd never smoked marijuana before, and our little alcohol escapade had happened nearly a week earlier.

For how fast alcohol leaves your system it is 2 hours per beer. and it's either 2 or 1 beers equals a shot of hard liquor.

Between four of us we'd gone through a large bottle of Jim Beam, but either way, the stuff would have left my system days before.

Eh, just commenting that even though you do take a UA, the results aren't guaranteed to be accurate.

*nod*
~Fianna

• KMO <kmo@c-realm.com> wrote:
  >
  >
  > -------- Original Message --------
  > Subject: FW: Urinalysis: Oh, joy!
  > Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 12:07:08 EDT
  > From: " Joe Hart & Kay Lee" <mrjah@flakeysol.com>
  > Reply-To: friends@freecannabis.org
  > To: Multiple recipients of list
  > <friends@freecannabis.org>
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Drug Policy Forum of Texas
  > [mailto:DPFT-L@TAMU.EDU]On Behalf Of
  > Charles Thompson
  > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 8:41 AM
  > To: DPFT-L@TAMU.EDU
  > Subject: Urinalysis: Oh, joy!
  >
  >
  > > Children should not use narcotics unless
  > necessary. Having said
  > > that, I cannot overemphasize the absolute
  > importance of defeating this
  > > insidious proposal. (see:
  > http://www.norml.org/news/index.shtml#story5 )
  > > As someone who is forced to take urine tests, I
  > can assure all of you that
  > > they are degrading, divisive, largely ineffective,
  > and an absolute
  > > abomination to any person who believes in the
  > fundamental precepts of the
  > > Constitution.
  >
  > I just wanted to share my own recent
  > experience with urine
  > testing.
  > I
  > recently reported to Dallas County Probation Office,
  > and my meeting went
  > fine. However, when the meeting was over, I was
  > asked to submit a urine
  > sample for drug/alcohol screening. I didn't think
  > this was any big deal.
  > After all, I use public restrooms all the time.
  >
  > I was sent to a small bathroom, with another
  > gentlemen to watch
  > me
  > give the
  > sample. I pulled down my pants, and held the little
  > plastic cup, but for
  > the
  > life of me I could not urinate. After about a
  > minute, the observer said
  > to
  > drink some water, and we would try again in 30
  > minutes.
  >
  > After drink about a gallon of water, and
  > three more attempts,
  > with
  > no
  > success, my bladder felt like it was going to burst.
  > I told the man that
  > I
  > was going to pee whether he stayed or not. After
  > about a minute, he said
  > that he didn't have all day, took the cup from me,
  > and left. I was
  > asking
  > him to wait outside the door until I started, as he
  > walked away. Shortly
  > thereafter, I was able to urinate. I called for him
  > to bring in the cup,
  > but
  > he did not respond.
  >
  > I left the bathroom, and found him, and
  > tried to explain. He
  > said
  > that the
  > law requires him to be present from the beginning to
  > the end of the
  > process,
  > and that he could not bring in the cup while I was
  > partway through
  > urinating. My probation officer happened by, and
  > asked what was up. When
  > I
  > told her, she replied that I would have to stay
  > there until I could
  > submit a
  > sample. Failure to submit a sample is an automatic
  > positive result, she
  > said. She told me that I could talk to a judge about
  > a blood test.
  >
  > I became quite upset, was in tears actually,
  > and another man
  > came
  > over and
  > asked me to leave the office. I went to my father's
  > house, explained to
  > him,
  > and he called my doctor. My father called back the
  > probation officer,
  > and
  > she completely changed her tune. She told my father
  > that I could visit
  > an
  > area hospital, have a blood sample taken and
  > analyzed, and have them
  > send
  > the results to her at the Probation Office.
  >
  > I am not happy with the way my probation
  > officer or the urine
  > collector
  > (for lack of a better term) handled this situation.
  > I think I am going
  > to
  > request a different probation officer, and simply
  > submit blood samples
  > at
  > the hospital from now on.
  >
  > I felt humiliated at my inability to perform
  > on demand in front
  > of
  > an
  > audience and under immense pressure. I didn't
  > anticipate any
  > difficulties,
  > and I know that my sample will test clean. I hope
  > this helps some of you
  > who
  > haven't been through this to understand why
  > urinalysis can be so
  > embarrassing. After all, two days ago, I didn't
  > think it was any big
  > deal
  > myself!
  >
  > Shared by
  >
  >
  > KayLee
  > END PROHIBITION NOW
  > http://www.angelfire.com/la/kaylee/graying.html
  >
  

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