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The hospital will not drug test you without cause or without informing you. They cannot release that info as far as I know. I would imagine that he was tested prior to the game and with it being his last strike it was sent to a lab for confirmation. He more than likely failed it prior to Saturday.
That doesn't mean that they are doing a drug screen on your blood. There must be a reason to order a drug screen: altered consciousness, a specific set of circumstances raising concerns for drug use, making sure that meds given for treatment wouldn't cause problems if illegal drugs were in system, etc.
There are a ridiculous number of tests that can be run on s blood sample. IF he had a positive blood test while in hospital, there should have been medical necessity to test.
And as for the authority/ permission to release test results to UT just because they were there, that's a bit shaky. Drug and alcohol diagnoses (along with HIV and sickle cell status) have special privacy protections. He would have had to sign a waiver (before or after) to share that.
I'm leaning toward the cleaning-out-the-locker possibility. Or something completely unrelated to the time in Texas.
Prolonged and habitual use of weed DOES do damage to a person's life, ask anyone who works in mental health, addiction counseling, etc.. That said, hard to make the case that recreational use is a good reason to jail people. Not sure what the happy medium is.
Altered mental status sure, when you're trying to figure out what's causing it. I can also see the purpose when there's been a car accident or a fall. But when everyone knows the cause of the injury and saw it on TV, what's the diagnostic reason for such a test? I'm genuinely curious.
So does alcohol. So does tobacco. Anyone seriously trying to get those things criminalized?
Let people make their own choices when it comes to their bodies. None of us are getting off this blue ball alive so as long as what your doing isn't harming others then have at it Hoss.Prolonged and habitual use of weed DOES do damage to a person's life, ask anyone who works in mental health, addiction counseling, etc.. That said, hard to make the case that recreational use is a good reason to jail people. Not sure what the happy medium is.