Clonidine False Positive (Page 2)
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I am a counselor at a ministry for addiction and need to know if clonidine will test positive for Benzo's.

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I am checking the web for my wife she was sent to jail today for testing positive for BENZO and all she takes is Zoloft,Dicyclomine,Robaxin,CLONIDINE HCL please help if anyone knows for sure if any of these would show positive for BENZO in a urine test

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I have tested positive for benzodiazepines when I haven't taken any. I couldn't sleep and I took a clonidine .1mg tablet that was prescribed to me when I was in drug treatment. I also tried Benadryl. Dont know which one caused the false positive for benzodiazepines but needless to say I'm livid because it's being reported to my probation officer!!!

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Thank you much for that info. I am not the one taking it, I had a student try to tell me that he would test positive due to his Clonidine prescription. I felt that was untrue and wanted to research it further before I confronted him on this issue.

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Clonidine is not a benzo. It is a blood pressure medication and off label can also help with anxiety and insomnia. This med is often confused with klonopin because of the similar sound of the 2 words and for the fact that is can be used to treat anxiety. But the chemicals in clonidine are completely different then the chemicals in benzodiazepines , so I couldn't see any reason at all it could test positive for a benzo . I also researched clonidine pretty extensively when my dr suggested it for me. So the answer is no. Don't worry , it's not a benzo . Hopefully you are also not confusing it with klonopin, cuz if it's klonopin your talking about then yes of course u will test positive for benzodiazepines. And if u are really worried u may want to disclose to them that u are on a blood pressure medicine call clonidine. But u should be fine , clonidine will prolly not show up in the test anyway, as this med is not something they are testing for and it's non narcotic anyway .

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