Mayfield’s Hair may be tested? Questions…?
Question by losted: Mayfield’s Hair may be tested? Questions…?
Mayfield’s hair may be tested: The back and forth between NASCAR and driver Jeremy Mayfield over drug allegations has gotten so bad that in Mayfield’s latest statement he describes the humiliation of having to go to the bathroom while someone watched. So what could bring it all to an end? It turns out it could come down to a piece of hair. “It’s like the bully in school,” Jeremy Mayfield told NewsChannel 36 last week. “Every three to five days I go get tested.” Who ends up in victory lane may come down to the difference between urinating in a cup and pulling a hair. “The drug that is incorporated into your hair — it stays there. You get a record, basically, of drug use with the hair,” said Dr. Ruth Winecker, the chief toxicologist for the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office. She says there’s no messing with hair. But no one has tested Mayfield’s hair, just his urine samples. “There are techniques people can use to try to cheat the system,” Winecker said. That’s exactly what both sides have accused each other of doing. NASCAR says Mayfield diluted his urine even before testing positive for meth, and Mayfield says NASCAR did something to his urine. NewsChannel 36 asked Mayfield’s attorney if they’ll be testing his hair as the judge in the case suggested several weeks ago. Attorney John Buric told us they are looking at the possibility, but right now they have been told Mayfield’s hair is too short.(NewsChannel 36)(7-23-2009)
My questions ….
1) How long does the hair sample have to be before it can be tested?
2) Can the hair sample be for any place on the body? Or just from your head?
Best answer:
Answer by Gizzy-Mo
A hair sample from the head needs to be about 1/2 or more to be tested. Jeremy’s is too short.
It can be from anywhere on the body including underarms, leg hairs and..well, you know. We don’t know if Jeremy has shaved in those areas or not.
At the beginning of the year Jeremy signed a contract that gave NASCAR permission to demand urine samples but he was not legally obligated to give NASCAR any hair samples. The judge can order it be done if he wishes, and Jeremy could have had it done himself anytime he wanted. If he has had it done, neither him or his lawyer has said anything about it or any results.
Older style urine tests can be easily confused regarding Meth. New modern day tests cannot. The difference is like the difference between an X-ray and a MRI.
This will not be settled until the judge says it is.
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