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Biotech / Medical : Psychemedics (PMD)
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To: Steve Felix who wrote (26)11/7/1997 8:37:00 PM
From: Jakesire   of 50
 
High Times article mentions hair analysis:
Doing my due dilly I pickes up a High Times, in the Dec/97 mag, pg40 there is an article entitled "Hair today, screwed tomorrow"
Sub heading: "Experts describe race bias in hair drug test"
It is a full page article describing the inaccuracies of the hair analysis testing.
There is a picture of Dennis Rodman with this caption underneath:
Blonde hair collects eight times fewer particles than black mens hair, and bleach drastically affects drug binding.

Other inconsistensies pointed out are that gray hairs pick up only 1/2 the drug as pigmented hair in the same person.
At the society of forensic toxicologists winter 1996 meeting in Denver, panelists agreed that hair testing remains a highly problematic and inaccurate technolgy.
Presenters at the SOFT conference focused primarily on the growing body of evidence indicating that hair testing is racially biased.
Researchers found that hair from African-American males collected eight times more cocaine than all the other groups, while the least binding occured with blonde caucasians.

Well just some food for thought, You do have to realize that the article came form High Times and that it is in their interest to slant any drug detection products in a negative light.
They also offer for sale, drug screening products to defeat testing proceedures for urine and hair tests.

In one of the paragraphs they mention the FDA tentatively approved the sale and distribution of home drug testing marketed by Psyemedics Corp, and now available in drugstore chains across the country.
Jake
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