DAVAO CITY – Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Friday said he accepted the challenge of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for them “to undergo a comprehensive drug test.”Earlier, Trillanes said he felt alluded to when Duterte claimed that a senator was into cocaine and challenged the vice mayor to undergo a drug test. Many of them, if not all, may have submitted themselves to a simple drug test before, but I encourage them to undergo the more precise examinations available in Metro Manila that would not just detect illegal drugs in urine or blood but even in hair follicles,” Duterte said in the statement. He said the hair follicle drug test alone could determine seven major drugs such as cocaine, opiates, methamphetamine, marijuana, ketamine, and benzodiazepine even if a person used any of them a few years back. Duterte had earlier undergone drug test, conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, and he came out clean. RELATED VIDEO

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 07, 2016 12:45 UTC