Ex-addict says testing could have helped him beat habit

Brian Caldwell never faced much trouble scoring illegal drugs,especially if he hadn't used his monthly allotment of food stamps.

For $100 in food stamps, he could easily get $50 worth of drugs.

But that much in meth, usually his drug of choice, wouldn't evenlast him one day.

Still, that's how he - a husband and father of five at the time -did business: Swapped food stamps for drugs.

Caldwell, 31, of St. Albans, has now been clean for three years.

And he's paid dearly for his past sins.

His wakeup call came after he was arrested for fighting with hiswife and then lost custody of his children. Caldwell and his wifedivorced. He has since …