Police Drug Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They Got This Man Wrongly Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl.
Reason Magazine • 2/23/2026
Summary
Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested due to unreliable field drug tests. One man was wrongly charged with trafficking fentanyl as a result of these tests.
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