False Positive For Benzos

I take Suboxone and Paxil. When my doctor gave me a drug test it came back positive for Benzos. I don't know why this happened.

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Hi Mandy,

Although I haven't located any details confirming the possibility of a false positive for Benzos from either of those medications, I do believe that it's still a strong possibility due to the faulty standard drug tests they use today. A lot of these standardized drug tests have a fairly high false-positive response, where it seems as though anything is likely to show up. To my knowledge, false positives are known to occur on them anywhere from 4 to 50% of the time.

Have you asked your doctor about getting re-tested? I hope you can get this sorted out! These false reports just put too much stress on patients who are simply taking their medications as prescribed.

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I've been on suboxone for abot a yr and also take hydroxyzine 50 mg 4 x day as needed. Usually only take 1 or 2 tops. Several months ago I had a false positive for benzos. Could this combination have done that? I also think I took benadryl the day before for sinus headache. When that happened the nurse administering the test said it was probably my combination of meds and just disregarded it. This has happened again recently and this petson will not distegard it and am afraid I'm in big trouble. He wouldn't even listen to how it happened before. Is there any info I can print online proving this?

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This just happened to me. My Dr is going to lab it and that will show I told the truth. I only take suboxone and prilosec. For heartburn.

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