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Your Fingerprint Can Reveal Cocaine Use

According to a new study, drug testing for cocaine may not require urine or blood samples in the near future. Researchers are testing a new process that could detect cocaine use by identifying traces of metabolized cocaine that is produced on a user’s fingertips.

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Scientists can already tell from people’s fingerprints if they’ve touched cocaine, but a new study goes one step further, showing that fingerprints can now also reveal whether a person has ingested the drug. The study, published in Analyst, may pave the way for simpler drug testing that doesn’t require urine or blood.

In a small study, a team of researchers analyzed the fingerprints of a handful of patients in drug treatment centers using a process called mass spectrometry. Someone who uses cocaine excretes components of metabolized cocaine called benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine. The study authors showed they were able to detect the cocaine components in the residue left by the patients’ fingerprints on glass through the mass spectormetry chemical analysis technique.

“These results provide exciting opportunities for the use of fingerprints as a new sampling medium for secure, non-invasive drug detection,” the researchers write in their study. “The mass spectrometry techniques used here offer a high level of selectivity and consume only a small area of a single fingerprint, allowing repeat and high throughput analyses of a single sample.”

If such a technique could be made portable, the researchers believe it could possibly provide a simpler and less invasive alternative to current drug testing.

Two Inmates Dead After Prison Riots In Nebraska

Two inmates were found dead Monday at a maximum security prison in southeast Nebraska after a wild uprising.

Inmates took control of at least part of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution Sunday during an incident when two staff members and two inmates were injured, according to the state Department of Correctional Services.

Staff members were attempting to break up a large gathering of inmates in front of a housing unit when the disturbance began, James Foster, a department spokesman, said in a statement.

Foster said officers regained control of the facility that houses 11 death row inmates on Monday. The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the deaths.

There were no reports of any escapes.

Smoke rose from two housing units on Sunday and driveways to the prison were blocked, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. But prison officials said the exterior of the facility was secured by Sunday evening and all staffers were accounted for.

Early Monday, no more smoke could be seen and employees were being allowed into the facility.

The Journal Star reported it received a call from inmate Jeffry Frank just before 11 p.m. Sunday via a case manager’s office phone.

“We’ve pretty much taken the whole prison,” Frank told the newspaper.

He said that no prison employees were inside the housing unit and described the scene, saying: “The ceilings are fallen. There’s drywall on fire. There’s cameras torn down,” according to the Journal Star.

Foster told the Omaha World-Herald that inmates had gained access to an office with a phone.

The 960-bed Tecumseh State Correctional Institution opened in 2001 in Johnson County, about 60 miles southwest of Lincoln.

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Facebook Video Shows Pennsylvania Mom Jumping A Teen Rival Along With Her Teen Daughters

bp5crawfordvilfight041515 — 38-year-old Sandra Jackson was arrested after a video went viral of her jumping a teenage girl with her daughters.

On the count of 3 —let’s all say it together.. RATCHET!

This ~~savage~~ PA mother was arrested last month for jumping on a teen girl who had some kind of ~~petty highschool~~ beef with her teenage daughters.

In the Facebook video that went viral, the mother can be seen alongside her 2 daughters throwing fists and kicking the teen in a shopping center parking lot.

Now, I totally understand a mother’s will to defend and protect her young, but wouldn’t the more appropriate parenting way to intervene have been to break up the melee instead of leading and partaking in the gangland-style street brawl? Clearly her daughters “get it from their momma”…

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Via WPXI

A mother was arrested and accused of taking part in a fight with her two teenaged daughters that was caught on camera.

According to McKeesport police, the mother and her two daughters can be seen in cellphone video that was posted online beating up another young woman.

Arlen Harper said he first came across the footage on Facebook.

“I sat there, and I watched it in disbelief,” he said. “I think it was senseless. I think it was unacceptable for all the adults who were standing there watching it.”

Harper and his family said they want justice for the young woman who was repeatedly punched and slammed to the ground.

Investigators said they arrested the mother, identified as 38-year-old Sandra Jackson, an hour after the fight. Their investigation into what led to the fight continues.