COOPER SAYS LAW MAKES N.C. SAFER

N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper said a measure that would make it a crime
to defraud a drug or alcohol screening test passed the N.C. Senate will make
the state safer.

The bill, which passed unanimously, now goes to the House of Representatives
for consideration.

"Individuals who try to trick drug tests and businesses that profit from
drug testing fraud threaten the safety of all North Carolinians," said
Cooper, who pushed legislators for the law.

In 1996, Kenneth Curtis started an online business in South Carolina to sell
urine test substitution kits. Each kit includes a sample of Curtis'
drug-free urine, a pouch, a tube and a warming device to heat the sample to
the proper temperature. He claims the kit can be kept out of sight of an
observer during testing.

Curtis was operating out of South Carolina, but when the S.C. General
Assembly banned the sale of products for the purpose of defrauding a drug
test, he moved his business to Hendersonville.