Will Suboxone Test Positive For Morphine

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I am in a veterans program and take 24mg of suboxone daily. A recent drug screen showed I tested positive for morphine, yet I never took anything other than suboxone. Is this positive?

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Same thing happened to me. I am in an outpatient program for rehap/probation. I am prescribed Suboxone (buprenorphine). I had all my urine tox's sent to a place called MEDLAB before I got insurance. Now that I have insurnace they were sent to QUEST DIAGNOSTICS and it cam bakc for buprenorphine (Suboxone) & morphine. My P.O. (probation officer) and rehab counselor don't believe me. Even though I tried showing my P.O. tons of information I've found online stating that buprenorphine is a derivative of the alakalaid thebane which is found in morphine & codiene. I'm soooooooo glad I've found someone else this is happening to! I have been searching online for 2 days and this is the first person I've found with the same problem!

Have you recieved any documentation from doctors confirming that it is possible for buprenorphine to metabolize back to morphine (its derivative) and show positive for morphine on a drug test.

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How often does morphine show up when you take suboxone? Will suboxone show on a ua taken by a po? I'm waiting for a test to come back and i'm very scared!!!

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Did u ever find an answer? I'm having same problem! On Buprenorphine keep getting accused of having morphine 80nl or something in my urine. When I tell dr this has to b happening to someone else, they say only me. I'm pulling out my hair.

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I realized long after that I had been eating like 2 everything bagels a day fro 3 weeks before that drug test. The bagels have a bunch of poppy seeds on them, so I'm convinced that's what ti was. I never got medical confirmation that suboxone can metabolize and show up as morphine. I ended up having to admit to something I didnt do, it was either that and get a "slap on the wrist" or stand my ground and go to jail.

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The same thing has been happening to me at my Suboxone doctor. I work at a restaurant that makes poppy seed muffins one day a week, and we always have a ton left over so I take a lot home with me to eat. I averaged eating about 6 of the small muffins daily. I am prescribed 2 of the 8/2mg films daily. In October, the doctor told me I had tested the HIGHEST levels possible for codine. I was floored and had no explanation for this. My November appointment with my doctor came back with positive results for morphine, and the same thing for December appointment. Now, instead of a single monthly appointment, I have been escalated to twice a month appointment for stricter monitoring. My doctor does not believe a word I say when I have emphatically refuted the results, to the point of tears. I was convinced the first three false positives were a fluke, but now that I've been put on WEEKLY appointments as of last Thursday, I have finally stopped eating the muffins. I don't have insurance, and $110 appointments every week isn't something I can afford. There can be no other explanation for the false positives other than the poppy seed muffins, so now that I've stopped eating them I'm hoping troubles are over. On a side note, being on Suboxone has been fantastic for me. It has allowed me to be a functioning member of society after years of addiction, numerous stays in jail and 3 prison bids. Anyone who is serious about quitting opiates, please do yourself a favor and get on some kind of buprenorphine/naloxone medication.

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I report to my PO every month and I've tested positive for Morphine every time and I'm on the Methadone clinic and the only thing that I've come across is that fact that they are both under and opiate but the crazy thing is....I came up negative for everything else! So i don't understand. Do any of you have any ideas why? My counselor is on vacation so I'm waiting for her to get back to ask her.

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Take 4 suboxone everyday for 2 months but showed a positive for morphine lost job please help

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This site is excellent! From england, doctors here are useless. I am on a reduction of the good old subbies! Last night I was climbing the walls, have been for the last 6 days. Could not take anymore, went out last night got a prescription of 40mil methadone & 4 Valium (roach 10's) best nights sleep I had. I slept for 10 hours. Hoping I don't go back to how I was. Down from 24mg to now 2mgs. It's taken 6 months to get them down to 2mg.

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I'be been on 2 strips of suboxone, 8/2 films since July 2015. Just yesterday at my appointment with the prescribing doctor I tested ALMOST positive for morphine. The line showed up that would make the morphine negative but the line was very very very very light. My Dr immediately pointed it out and said that buprenorphine must be showing as morphine. I didn't really question anything because I definitely haven't been taking anything other than the suboxone. Anyways, the fact that she had made that statement leads me to believe that YES, buprenorphine and/or Suboxone can test positive as morphine... I just don't understand why it was so randomly and rarely.

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I take S uboxone but I run out of Suboxone I took some morphine for 2 day about 90mg a day I have a drug test at my clinic will I have a positive for morphine

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I tested positive for morphine today after being on subtext for almost 2 years with not 1 positive Ua. I know my doctor wants me on suboxone instead but I have adverse effects, she finally did a preauthorization for my Med and the next random Ua I tested positive for morphine, I never have or would use this. I paid to have it sent to a lab and came back morphine, I am speechless how is this possible?

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Chris,
It sounds as if they followed all suggested procedures by allowing you the opportunity for a re test for confirmation purpose's. Did they provide you with the levels of morphine present in the retest sample?unfortunately they have the upper hand and final say when they follow all standards required. I wish I had better news for you.

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I'm sitting in my doctors office now, and just tested positive for morphine as well! I am perplexed. I haven't taken anything except my Suboxone, and this is the second time I've tested positive for morphine. I have been eating the everything bagels as well maybe that's it? I'm going to stop eating them and see if there is a difference. Suboxone has changed my life for the better as well.

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I am also a Vet in a veteran substance abuse program and just tested positive for morphine for the second time in 2 years. I am on 2 mg of suboxone in the morning and 2 at night. I take some other meds but no opiates. I have been sober for 4 months in this program and have never touched morphine or this crap called noroxymorphone. My Doctor told me there was no way this could happen and has never heard of naloxone metabolizing into morphine and noroxymorphone. Are those 2 the same thing? I am part of the veterans court program and unless I can find proof to show the lab that this can happen, I'm in some trouble. Please advise on anything you guys have found. Thanks!

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That is so messed up how the system is..it is really sad when they make you admit to something you didnt do..im having the same problem i take suboxone and bupropion but im assuming it is the suboxone or maybe a combo of the two that are coming up as morphine..dyfs took my daughter when i was already clean and at my iop (intensive outpatient program) that day..i came back to my aunts house where she was babysitting my daughter and she was gone.. all because her dad called and claimed i was getting high with him and his test was dirty..i do not take anything else that is not prescribed and ive been clean almost 2 years now and once again they are trying to take my daughter and threaten me and whatever else..i told them i am not doing anything and my worker knows im not..i told them i would take another and they said they want me to on Monday.. today is Friday am i just setting myself up or can i do anything..i just feel so helpless and it is putting a strain on my family (my daughter, her stepdad and i)..i told dyfs that i was going to speak to a lawyer and i would get back to them because i dont trust any of them.. she proceeded to tell me that i was not and if i dont let them see my daughter then they will do what they have to do..i just got custody back and all the sudden my urine is dirty..i will not let them take my child..i just dont know what else i can do

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I currently go to a methadone clinic that also does buprenorphine doses as well, in which i take 20 mgs of subutex daily...all my urines received thru the clinic r good, only showing buprenorphine. I submitted a urine sample for a program I'm in and it came up hot for MORPHINE/CODEINE... I don't understand how this urine screen came up with them both because i only take Subutex...

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I only take suboxone and adderall. Well, last week my dr said I failed for morphine and he said I failed for morphine at my last visit and I don’t take morphine. So how did I fail for this?

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Re: P4TR1CK (# 1) Expand Referenced Message

This just happened to my boyfriend today. He tested positive for oxymorphone which she said was morphine. He's freaked out, never took anything other than the generic Suboxone tablets. He just started probation a month ago and we know no one will believe him because he's a addict.

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Re: P4TR1CK (# 1) Expand Referenced Message

I am having same problem as you were. Did u ever find nor information on this

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