Clonidine False Positive (Page 2) (Top voted first)

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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Re: Robert (# 4)

Yes clondine will make you test positive for benzo I just went through the same thing make them send it to the lb for her

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Re: Brook (# 9)

Apparently you know NOTHING about how medicine can cross react and cause false positives do your research before you jump on here knowing absolutely nothing just because it’s not a benzo itself it indeed will cause a false positive

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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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