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Show Continued from Pag 18 for confirmation of marijuana or cocaine, known as gas chromatography mass spectrometry, is used. The colonel said radioimmunoassay testing is "similar to the technology that is used to screen for AIDS because it employs the use of drug antibodies as a major constituent. The antibodies are added to the sample and antigen radioactivity is measured to determine how much of the drug is present. The less radioactivity you find in the tube the more positive that drug sample is." In the past, according to the colonel, some Military Airlift Command crews turned up cocaine positive. It was learned later that on their trips to South tea America the crews were drinking a to help with altitude adaptation. They were actually positive because they were inadvertently ingesting cocaine. He added that some poppy seeds contain low levels of morphine and can cause a positive opiate test. 66 stand The drug culture does not stagnant I perceive that three or four years from now we'll be testing for drugs that we don't even know can be abused today. . Colonel Groshner 99 Researchers are now working on a test to differentiate between poppy seeds and heroin use. When reporting opiate results, these samples are referred to commanders as positive, but they are told that it could have resulted from poppy seed ingestion. Along with the weekly mixing of the 48 outside lab imposes other quality con- samples, the coca-base- d in-hou- se trol measures at each' stage of the testing process. Both positive and negative samples are intermin- gled with the regular specimens. Quality control workers continually watch for errors in analysis or discrepancies in handling. " No caps are vr off two sample bottles at the same time. There is only one test tube poured from one open bottle at any given time. Careful handling is followed throughout the testing procedure to assure no error in sample identification can occur," the colonel said. The colonel understands that some military people view urine specimens and their collection methods as degrading. "It's a shame to put 99 percent of our people through that, but it's the only way we know that we're going to get a true result. Blood and other body fluids are not very acceptable substitutes," he said. The laboratory may be required to perform testing for other drugs, such as LSD. The amount of LSD used now does not compare to the quantity consumed during the '60s. Navy labs are currently working on new LSD testing procedures. According to the colonel, people who fear a positive result due to passive inhalation need not worry. "A casual passing through of marijuana smoke, even if that person breathed on them for several hours, would still not turn a false positive," he said. In a recent passive inhalation test conducted by civilian researchers, eight subjects in a very small room inhaled the marijuana smoke produced by 16 smoking machines. After spending one hour for six room, with smoke so intense days in the closet-likthey required goggles, three subjects barely made it over the current Department of Defense cutoff e 1902 PONTinC FinCQIftD Stock Stock 16S3A 1523A level. Stodc14773 , "That's the kind of intensity it would take to become positive by passive inhalation," the colonel said. "The drug culture does not stand stagnant," the colonel added. "I perceive that three or four years from now we'll be testing for drugs that we don't even know can be abused today. ' 'We have to keep up with whatever the underto be able to ground is doing out there weWehave sufficient have lines. those progress along essencan so we lab that in the research equipment if for necessary." any drug, tially develop testing O0QOS 1903 suonnu UJDGON 4x4 Stock 7692A- O 1907 NISSnN PflTIIFINDft IPCS Stock 9759A Stock 1198A - O mssnn vnn. 1907 Nissnn 1902 CUlCll 1907 300 ZX nconi Stock 14756 14777 Stock Stock 14882 - EJBD-MK- 19C5 1974 CIKV. 34-TO- Stock 10505A 0 hbstsbb 1CC5 1906 PONTinC as&sn lilJJIimiH Stock 61 66A PICKUP N pnnisiajN Stock 14769 z78 SUNQIftD Stock 01 4x4 2-D- fl. 1590A i Stock '?! Jfe -- vf o 7694A Stock 6011 A At 5 M o a 1903TOVOTn TCHCCL Stock Stock 14794A V-- 6, iJs&aSlIM t:o:;M XL6C0 r.:oTorx9ac koi t:zzz:i nnc ui.c. Ii 1906 9S 1904 InftTsjaiMiai" 4-- dr 1907 PONTinC D0; J UinGON 6233A 31 0 MANY ' I GU 400, 'oUoHo i COSTS $100 CLOSING LOCATIONS "7" I DECORATED J) 11 JJ MODELS IVORY COMPANY fill' AND vi-- i. i,. 153" 6231 o FROM!!! Hi noToncvctc Stock 9659A cnr.innoA Stock suzum 1901 1903 CIICVnOLCT . turn "1; O v O ' ' ' ,! ' '' "w '; 451 --7069, 776-353- 0, 825-560- 0, v. 776-050- 5, 773-110- 0 |