Question:
I took a drug test recently as a condition of employment. The test
came back positive. There was a trace of Morphine in my urine. This
baffles me somewhat as I have never taken drugs of any kind and have
never smoked. I do not even drink. In January, I was given a
prescription for EntexLA and Cipro for an ear problem. The doctor
doubts the medicine could cause the false positive.
After talking to a pharmacist, he said that poppy seeds could be the
cause. I did eat poppy seed muffins the day before.
Could anyone confirm what the pharmicist said and is there any other
food one should avoid prior to going for a drug test? I cannot afford
to have another false positive.
Answer:
Possible you ate enough poppy seeds recently without knowing or
remembering it. Perhaps they were a hidden ingredient in something.
Also, did they just do an EMIT test or did they follow it up with GC/MS.
The EMIT test is much cheaper but it can produce false positives. Decent
people spring for the expensive, and near foolproof GC/MS test to confirm
false positives. If they just did the EMIT it could have been a false
positive.
