re: If you're arrested in LA, are you drug tested and put in drug court if you fail?

That doesn't sound right.

In AL if you get a DUI you go CRO(court referral office),also known as "color code",until your Trial.

You have to call every weekday morning and see if it's your color.You have to report for a drug test that day.

Then the Judge puts you through a year or so of Community Corrections.Reporting every week or month.Paying your fee every month.Going to Meetings.

It's a money generating system here.

Drug Charges are worse of course.

Saint.Dang.That's a little piece of time.People either get fat or turn into weight lifters.