Q. I have just taken up gin-soaked raisins for arthritis. So far, so good; they seem to be working.
My employer requires random urine testing for drugs and Breathalyzer testing for alcohol. Will this remedy cause a false positive? We are not given the option of a blood test to prove our compliance with their zero tolerance policy. Several employees have been terminated because of the urine/drug test.
A. Make sure you eat your gin-soaked raisins after work, rather than in the morning. It is unlikely that you would fail a Breathalyzer test for alcohol based on nine gin-soaked raisins. Nevertheless, this might be possible if the test were done shortly after you ate them. According to our analysis, there is about a drop of alcohol in nine properly prepared raisins.
