The first portable drug test can detect small traces of recreational substances in less than ten minutesDinner party cocaine takers and Friday night joint smokers have a new reason to fear going back to work on Monday. The first portable drug test, which can detect small traces of recreational substances in less than ten minutes at a cost of a few pounds, has gone on sale. Intelligent Fingerprinting, based in Cambridge, plans to market its Reader 1000 device to prisons, hospitals and coroners. The device has been tested by mortuary staff at the Sheffield Medico-Legal Centre to determine whether drug use was a factor in unexplained deaths. The NHS estimates that about one in 12 British adults, or 2.7 million people, took at least one illicit drug…

Source: The Times August 31, 2017 23:03 UTC