Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Allmendinger tested positive for Adderall:
Allmendinger tested positive for Adderall: AJ Allmendinger tested
positive for prescription Adderall, the suspended NASCAR driver told
ESPN in an exclusive sit down interview Tuesday. Adderall is typically
prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Allmendinger
said. He does not have ADHD and therefore had no prescription. He
explained that he had been out in Louisville, KY, the Wednesday before
the Quaker State 400 race at Kentucky Speedway, and was tired. A
friend, Allmendinger said, handed him a pill and stated it was a workout
supplement that would give him energy. Allmendinger ingested the pill.
Two days later he was randomly-tested at the racetrack, a test he would
ultimately fail. He said neither NASCAR nor its drug testing team from
Nashville-based Aegis Labs would inform him of the specific substance in
question until after the B Sample was tested July 24, only that he had
tested positive for amphetamine. It was not until he was informed it
was Adderall that he traced it back to that night in Kentucky. He said
he does not abuse Adderall, rather that he took it just once.
Allmendinger is currently going through NASCAR's Road to Recovery
program, which he said he hopes to complete by the end of August. He
said his case is being treated more as a stress-coping methodology than a
drug rehabilitation (ESPN)(8-7-2012)
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