How does an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet work, anyway?
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If you're like me, you probably spent at least one or two moments pondering the utility of the so-called alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet that Lindsay Lohan apparently wore, and wondered, "Didn't that thing eventually just kind of start spewing smoke and explode?" Luckily, Newsweek recently interviewed the manufacturers of the device, known as SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor), to find out exactly how it works. It's a great, geeky read:
NEWSWEEK: How does it work?
Don White: The ankle bracelet takes an air sample from the ankle at least every hour, collects that data and stores it until it can connect to a modem and go through a landline to a computer for viewing and analysis. It’s taking the sweat, because 1 percent of what you drink comes out of your skin and attaches to sweat, so that's what we monitor. It's almost like a Breathalyzer on your ankle. It's a lot more sensitive than a Breathalyzer, but it's the same technology....
There are reports that the SCRAM can be cheated by submerging it in water to prevent sweating or by putting baloney between the skin and the device. Does that work?
We've had 40,000 people who have tried to find ways to get around it so it's always a cat-and-mouse game, but drinking events will last anywhere from six to 12 hours, so in order to block that you'd have to have it submerged the whole time, which is against the orders of probation. People can figure out how to get around anything, but if you don't comply, we will eventually get you. As far as the baloney, we had one offender do that and we have an infrared sensor that takes a signature from the skin and, anything, including baloney, would affect that sensor.
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THE BEST AND ONLY WAY TO SUPERVISE A PERSON UNDER A SENTENCE FROM THE COURTS IS DIRECT BREATHALYZERS AND URINALYSIS! HOW MUCH TIME DO THE WASTE OF THEIR CLIENTS DUE TO FALSE READINGS, AND HOW MANY CLIENTS HAVE BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED IN COURT FOR DRINKING WHEN THEY DID NOT. THIS SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK. WE KNOW BECAUSE WE USED IT IN OUR EHM SERVICE AND DICONTINUED BECAUSE OF THE FALSE READINGS AND ALL THE TIME WE WASTED. OVERRATED, FALSE MARKETING.!!!!!!!!!!
Stands for "something continuous something alcohol monitoring"
It's not gonna show up if you're doing drugs. Only getting intoxicated. Get your lives together some of you have probably got intoxication manslaughter charges and your worries are about pot and alcoholic beverages showing up Gimme a fucking break. Get yourselves together.
The penal system is our modern day slavery.
There is this study that says that alcohol from vodka is not absorbed through the feet. [link] The key here is the detection limit that was used of 2.2 mmol/L (10 mg/100 mL). I think the SCRAM measures any amount of alcohol. And from: [link] , it seems as though skin contact can trigger a result in the SCRAM but that it can be distinguished from drinking the alcohol and won't be reported. "There are many substances containing alcohol (e.g., perfume, hand sanitizers) that can act as environmental interferants and produce a positive alcohol reading.
As a preventive measure, offenders are instructed to avoid such substances and provided with a list of common product interferants. However, when offenders do come into contact with interfering substances, the alcohol curve that is generated assists trained AMS staff in identifying the source of the alcohol.
Positive alcohol curves that are generated by interferants are often clearly distinguished from true positive alcohol curves that occur due to consumption, based on differences in absorption and burnoff rates. Talk to your P.O. about it.
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Your friend should never be allowed to drive. What a piece of @#$%.
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