Posted by utopizen on December 5, 2005, at 18:49:40
Since we're all on so many meds, please remember:
Never, ever take a breathalizer test.You never know what meds you're taking will influence it, and you're letting yourself open for a JURY to determine its validity, who often sleep through expert medical witnesses. And Judges just assume you're lying.
Spend the night in a jail cell, it's worth it.
In other news, just hope you never work for a place that requires drug testing, because it means you're going to force open your medical records to 2-bit operations that don't exactly shred documents, and can even share your mental disorders with your employer.
Why this stuff is still legal, bothers me.
For probation purposes, it should not be permitted as evidence unless the prescribing physician can be legitimately discreditted by his peers FIRST.Innocent until proven you have a mental illness, I say.
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Tom Sizemore in hot waters
Another day, another bad report card for trouble-magnet Tom Sizemore.Prosecutors claim the Black Hawk Down actor violated his probation for the second time in just five months, after traces of amphetamines were found during a court-ordered urine test.
Lawyers for Sizemore, 44, claim the test results were tainted due to the prescribed medication selegiline, a drug commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease, and not the result of their client falling back into old habits.
"This is a perfectly harmless agent," Dr. Joseph Haraszti, Sizemore's physician, said following Friday's hearing, per City News Service. "This helps with depression...and doesn't have the same biologic effect of euphoria and everything else[associated with illegal drugs]."
Sizemore attorney Michael Rovell also argued that the inhaler the actor uses to treat his asthma could produce a positive result on the drug test.
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