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No, not a professional in this field - or even close - but with a smidgen of formal education (BA minor in physiological psych). I guess I thought it was "obvi
by jMyles 7y ago
No, not a professional in this field - or even close - but with a smidgen of formal education (BA minor in physiological psych).
I guess I thought it was "obvious" in the sense that many people routinely face employment-related drug screenings which don't test for these compounds.
But yeah, reading my comment again, I think you're right that "obviously" is probably overstating things.
I do think that it's probably sadly optimistic to say "I’m pretty sure that we’ll know exactly what he took", unless things have changed since I last studied this material.
I hope that there is a conclusion on which psychoactive compound(s) this person ingested; I apologize for my tone.
- jefft255 7y agoI had no idea LSD was difficult to test for; I guess I had some preconceived belief that most regular drugs (including LSD which is not rare) could easily be detected after a few hours of ingestion. It actually surprises me that you can be high as a kite in a hospital and that doctor might not be able to detect what drugs you’re on with blood/puke sample. I don’t actually have anything near medical training!!
- jMyles 7y ago> It actually surprises me that you can be high as a kite in a hospital and that doctor might not be able to detect what drugs you’re on Funny - I have the opposite notion: it amazes me that it is possible, with blood alone, to determine what someone has ingested. I tend to think of digestion and metabolism as a sort of one-way hash function, but apparently it's a fairly weak function, and rainbow tables abound.