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10 January
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Can Diabetes Really Skew Breath Test Results?

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Can Diabetes Really Skew Breath Test Results?

When people take breath tests on the roadside during law enforcement traffic stops, many different factors may influence the results – even diabetes. Breathalyzer tests are not perfect, and the effects of diabetes could lead to an inflated blood alcohol concentration (BAC) reading. How Could Diabetes Affect a Breathalyzer Reading? Diabetes impacts the body’s ability to produce or respond to insulin, which is a hormone. When the body cannot use insulin properly or has too little insulin, glucose builds up in the blood. A build-up of glucose in the bloodstream is called high blood sugar, or hyperglycemia. Untreated hyperglycemia can lead the body...

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25 August
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Common Myths about Breath Testing

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Common Myths about Breath Testing

Even law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and defense attorneys persist in believing several common myths about breath testing. This article explains why those myths are incorrect and how the truth could assist in defending a DUI. Myth: Belching and Vomit Do Not Affect Breath Test Results. Some people think that burping, belching, vomiting, and indigestion do not have a significant effect on breath tests results. Science has shown that this idea is fundamentally incorrect. Vomit, gas, and residual mouth alcohol all can contaminate breath specimens, leading to elevated readings of blood alcohol content from a breathalyzer. Mason & Dubowski, Breath as a Specimen...

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04 August
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Problems with Breath Testing in Oklahoma

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Problems with Breath Testing in Oklahoma

Breath testing for blood alcohol content has many flaws that could affect the outcome of a DUI case. Oklahoma law enforcement use a breathalyzer called the Intoxilyzer 8000, which works on a light absorption theory. Like for blood testing, variances in the test equipment and testing process can result in incorrect BAC level measurements. Breathalyzer technology employs a number of scientific assumptions that can be challenged because not every human processes alcohol or breathes into the device in the same way. For example, the devices’ accuracy depends on the assumption that every driver has an exact number of parts of alcohol...

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