TWENTY FOUR RESIDENTS OF NURSING HOME TEST POSITIV

[boulder]

Source: wbir

 

Twenty four patients at Claiborne County Nursing Home tested positive for marijuana this weekend. Administrators were baffled until Monday.

 

Claiborne County Nursing Home says it contacted the Tennessee State Health Department, the TBI, and local police when an elderly patient first tested positive for marijuana last week.

 

They say more tests tell a different story.

 

Mossie Roark's children got the shock of their lives when their 84- year-old mother tested positive for marijuana. Her daughter Brenda Short said, "I don't know what to think. It just floored me and everybody else."

 

Benda Short's mother lives in the Claiborne County Nursing Home. She tested positive when brought to the adjoining E.R. for treatment. Roark's lab results weren't the first or last to show marijuana.

 

Linda Vanlandingham says two positive tests prompted them to screen the more than ninety people living there. Twenty four of them tested positive for marijuana.

 

[zombienote: They will never work in these here parts again. Lucky it's not Nevada or they would all have to be charged with possession.]

 

The common factor between those testing positive was a particular prescription drug for acid-reflux that one initial test interpreted as marijuana.

 

The manufacturer of the drug screening kit used by the hospital confirms high levels of the particular prescription drug can give a false positive result for marijuana.

 

The hospital has two independent labs working to double check those tests. So far, one patient has come back negative for marijuana.

 

12/16/2002 6:23:57 PM

Reporter: Kay Watson

[BlackBeauty]

acid-reflux medication?

 

hrmmm....

[boulder]

Will try to find the brand name........could make a quality defense.

 

Cheers