When prosecutors, the press, or a juror’s intuition tell you that “drugs cause crashes,” there is one study they should be made to confront: the 2015 NHTSA case-control study by Richard Compton and Amy Berning, Drug and Alcohol Crash Risk (DOT HS 812 117). It remains the largest, most carefully…
By Okorie Okorocha, J.D., M.S., M.S. The Kitagawa balloon test, more precisely the Kitagawa-Wright detector-tube method, issometimes treated in courtrooms and older case files as if it were a scientificallygrounded measurement of blood-alcohol concentration. It is not. The most strikingfeature of the historical record is that the people best positioned…
Your veins are full of warm, sugary, nutrient-rich liquid. So why isn’t it bubbling like a beer vat? Here’s a thought that should keep you up at night: your body contains roughly five liters of warm, slightly salty, sugar-and-protein-rich liquid, kept at a steady 37°C. To a microbe, that sounds…