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Guest -> RE:NFL News (11/14/2007 5:20:38 AM)
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[quote="Duane Sampson"]Travis Henry Passes Lie Detector & Drug Test Tue Nov 13, 2007 ESPN reports Denver Broncos HC Mike Shanahan said RB Travis Henry passed a lie detector test and a recent hair sample taken from Henry came back negative for marijuana. "If the tests were positive, Travis would not be on our football team right now," Shanahan said. "When he went back and took the hair sample and that was negative, the lie detector test and that was negative, we'll let due process take care of itself. If Travis took a test and it was positive, after what he promised me, he wouldn't be on the football team right now." Henry is trying to keep the league from suspending him over the results of a drug test earlier this season. He'll present his case to the NFL in Phoenix on Friday. If he's unsuccessful, he faces a year's suspension. Shanahan is confident that won't be the case. Shanahan said he doesn't expect to hear back from the league on a ruling until after his team's game against the Tennessee Titans, Henry's former team, next Monday night. "I don't think they would do that," Shanahan said. "You practice somebody during the week and not let them play Monday night? I don't think that's been done before. I'm sure it will be the day after or the week after." Either way, Shanahan believes in his running back, who signed a five-year, $22.5 million free agent contract that included $12 million in guarantees this offseason after the Titans released him in a cost-saving move. Henry, who had been suspended for four games in September 2005 for violating the league's substance abuse policy while in Tennessee, was weeks away from cycling out of the drug program when a random test came back positive. Henry sued the NFL to keep from being suspended for a year. He contends the league violated its substance abuse policy by not allowing his expert to be present for the testing of his urine sample. The lawsuit is separate from his hearing this week in Phoenix.[/quote] **************************************************************** I wonder if anybody knows the actual procedure that is followed on these drug tests. I read something a while back that stated that the very best urine tests for drugs still resulted in 10% false positives. Hopefully they test twice if positive, or use the hair sample. It shouldn't be left up to your appeal to defend yourself on a test that is inaccurate one out of 10 times.
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