Help...false Positive Drug Testing
UpdatedCan Minocycline give a false positive for Methadone (EDDT) metabolites? I do not take any medications that I am not suppose to especially Methadone. My career is now on the line.
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Hi Jessie,
Although I haven't located any details confirming the possibility of a false positive for Methadone from Minocycline, 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.
If your career is on the line, the best advice I can offer is that you try to dispute your case by getting re-tested with a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. This method has the ability to distinguish the exact substance in question, but is not initially performed because of cost. However, it is often a follow-up option for those facing serious consequences such as a job loss or jail time. I think companies who don't use this method right off the bat are just too scared to spend a little extra money for the right results.
Hopefully this will change in time as they realize the statistics showing how many people this happens to on a daily basis. These false reports just put too much stress on patients who are simply taking their medications as prescribed.
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