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The field sobriety and breathalyzer tests are just excuses to get suspected DWIs into the drunk tank nowadays.
Once there they'll draw blood for drug and blood-alcohol testing. That's the test that will be used in court if it gets that far.
>I'm also quite sure that you could train for soberty tests
Not a doctor but I don't know that you could fake out a Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_sobriety_testing
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The field sobriety and breathalyzer tests are just excuses to get suspected DWIs into the drunk tank nowadays.
Once there they'll draw blood for drug and blood-alcohol testing. That's the test that will be used in court if it gets that far.
>I'm also quite sure that you could train for soberty tests
Not a doctor but I don't know that you could fake out a Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_sobriety_testing