Police Drug Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They Got This Man Wrongly Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl.
Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested because of unreliable field drug tests, according to one estimate.
(Police body camera footage)
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This article originally appeared in print under the headline "He Was Jailed for Fentanyl. It Was Really His Legal Prescription Meds.."
