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The Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) partnered with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), Middle Tennessee State University’s (MTSU) Forensic Science Laboratory, and AAA to offer the very first, “Advanced Drug-Impairment Assessment through Physiology and Toxicology” (ADAPT) course in the country. The ADAPT course is designed to further the knowledge…

Photo: Tennessee Drug Recognition, or DRE, experts listen intently as MTSU biology assistant professor Kiel Ormerod shares information about the brain and central nervous system and the effects from drug usage during the two-day ADAPT — “Advanced Drug Assessment through Physiology and Toxicology” — workshop recently in the MTSU Ingram Building's MT Center. About 100 DRE police officers attended the session sponsored by MTSU Forensic Science, the TBI a...