{"id":2644,"date":"2012-08-07T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2012-08-07T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:21:34","slug":"a-j-allmendinger-tested-positive-for-adderall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/08\/07\/a-j-allmendinger-tested-positive-for-adderall\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J Allmendinger tested positive for Adderall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AJ+Allmendinger+NASCAR+Testing+Pocono+Raceway+A-v-zLZOSc6l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2296\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AJ+Allmendinger+NASCAR+Testing+Pocono+Raceway+A-v-zLZOSc6l-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>A.J Allmendinger former driver of the No.22 Penske Dodge, failed a random drug test during the weekend of June 30; the race weekend at Kentucky. On July 24th, the driver had his &#8220;B Sample&#8221; tested;\u00a0 only hours later the sample came back positive as well.<\/p>\n<p>Early last week, Allmendinger was released from his Penske Racing contract due to violating NASCAR&#8217;s substance abuse policy. Allmendinger is currently taking part in NASCAR&#8217;s Road to Recovery Program so that he can one day get back to racing in a series operated\/owned by NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>The first reports were the drug was a &#8220;stimulant&#8221;, later turned out it was an &#8220;amphetamine&#8221;, today Allmendinger told ESPN what he tested positive for.<\/p>\n<p>Allmendinger says he tested positive for the prescription drug Adderall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/racing\/nascar\/cup\/story\/_\/id\/8243320\/aj-allmendinger-tested-positive-prescription-adderall\">According to a report by ESPN.com<\/a>, Allmendinger said a friend handed him a pill and stated it was a workout supplement that would give him energy.<\/p>\n<p>He later tested positive for a prohibited substance as part of NASCAR&#8217;s random drug testing policy and was subsequently suspended indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Adderall is typically prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which Allmendinger does not have a prescription for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Source: Getty Images North America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.J Allmendinger former driver of the No.22 Penske Dodge, failed a random drug test during the weekend of June 30; the race weekend at Kentucky. On July 24th, the driver had his &#8220;B Sample&#8221; tested;\u00a0 only hours later the sample came back positive as well. Early last week, Allmendinger was released from his Penske Racing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[30],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-2644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aj-allmendinger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}