What is the DRE program? What are its main strengths and weaknesses?
What will be an ideal response?
The DRE (drug recognition expert) program is a series of clinical and psychophysical examinations used by trained police officers to identify and differentiate between types of drug impairment. It incorporates standardized methods for examining suspects to determine what category of drug may be impairing performance. Strengths include the following: the toxicologist can often determine that a suspect has a particular drug in his or her body; the DRE can supply credible evidence that the suspect was impaired at a specific time; and the DRE can confirm that the nature of the impairment was consistent with a particular family of drugs. However, the DRE program usually cannot determine which specific drug was ingested.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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