Making Sense of Drug Testing
Year
2011 - Los Angeles, CA
Speakers
Facilitator: Daniel Abrahamson, Director, Legal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, CA
Paul Armentano, Deputy Director, NORML, Washington, DC
Patt Denning, Therapist, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA
Becky Lo Dolce, San Francisco Probation Department, San Francisco, CA
Mark O’Brien, Policy Associate, Legal Action Center, New York, NY
Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, NY
Rod Skager, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Despite drug testing’s many limitations, it is used extensively in the criminal justice system, and its use is expanding into other areas such as driving under the influence of drugs checkpoints and welfare eligibility. This panel will examine the scientific limits of drug testing, emerging trends in the use of these tests, and strategies to curtail their use.