WTF This Chick I Know Failed A Drug Test For.........

if she took enough nyquil i think it has DXM in it, which is a huge flag on drug tests now...but she had to chug the nyquil

i would not put it past her

It's called a false positive. She probally got pinched for the ambien. If she has a prescription for it shes good, no questions asked.
Duke

Is she an Insomniac? Doing those 2 together she must want to sleep like a Bear in the winter.

meh, you can fail drug tests for eating poppie seed bagels, drug tests for work etc are bullshit.

Umm, No drug test that i know of does Ambiens or DXM, usally most jobs give a 5 panel screen, Opiates, Amphetamines, THC, Coke, Methamphetamines

And thats a urban myth, Total bullshit, If it does show up you have to eat so many poppy seeds it would make you sick.

Downing the Nyquiladas...



Alcohol is cheaper and keeps you clean in a drug screen.

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DXM and Drug Tests
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Tested for in Standard Drug Tests? NO
Tested for in Extended Drug Tests? NO
Possible to Test for? Yes
Will Trigger Tests for Other Substances? Possible : PCP & Opiates
Detection Period in Urine unknown (3-5 days?)


... False positive is pretty rare, More than likely if shes truthfully not taken anything then shes been drugged at a party or something and not realised it, Might want to pass that by her, Because if shes not lying and failing a test then id be worried wtf went in my system with out me knowing it

i'd pass on her myself

from the same page

now that it is all the rage in high schools to take dxm, they have started including it in most drug tests

apparently you have never watched mythbusters.

Wrong.

MythBusters did a controlled experiment on this-
One guy ate a poppy seed cake, one ate a bagel with a poppy seed.
Both showed false positives for 72 hours afterwards.

From the website
Myth: Poppy Seed Drug Test

If you eat a poppy seed bagel or poppy seed cake in the morning you will test positive for opiates on a drug screen.

The Experts:

Heather Joseph-Witham, folklorist, this is not usually told in story form, just as an unsubstantiated rumor. It plays on the fact that we are all afraid of random drug testing, and we may be against it, but we all want our pilots to be clean.

Larry Dougherty, private investigator, this is a very alive debate, as many people say you will test positive as those who say you won?t. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Florida in 1997 where he covered a story about a woman who successfully sued after an employer withdrew a lucrative job offer after she ate two bagels the morning of the interview. The woman was awarded $859,000.

Dr. Kent Holtorf, author of ?Ur-ine Trouble,? the screening urine tests are an amino assay test that works by having antibodies directed at the compound it is looking for. In the case of the opiate test they are looking for codeine and morphine in urine, the two substances that heroin is broken down into. Poppy seeds have codeine and morphine in them, they are the heroin poppy seeds, but the seeds have a very low concentration so there are no physical or mental effects. He explains that a false positive is when a drug test comes back positive when an illicit drug was not taken. One study showed as much as a 50% false-positive rate for these tests, and another study showed that a person can test positive for up to 72 hours after eating a poppy seed bagel.

Quotable Moments:

Adam: ?This is going to cure me of my love for poppy seed cake once and for all.?

Action/Results: Opiate drug tests are ordered through the Internet. The only other supplies needed were containers for urine and bagels and poppy seed cake. To make sure the tests are working and that there are no interferences with other foods, both Adam and Jamie take the test before eating anything with poppy seeds. Both tests turn out negative. A coin flip is used to determine who gets to eat what, Jamie gets the bagels and Adam gets the cake. To determine if there is a specific dosage needed, Adam will eat a large amount of poppy seeds, the entire 2,600-calorie loaf, and Jamie will eat a normal amount, three bagels. The tests are administered at a half hour, one hour, two hours, four hours, eight hours and 18 hours after beginning to eat the seeds. Adam tests positive after a half hour, but it takes two hours before Jamie tests positive. The next morning they finally test negative again, 18 hours later.

Adam decides to get to the bottom of this and calls several drug test companies to see if the tests are sensitive enough to read poppy seeds and they all pretend to have never even heard of this myth. When Adam confronts them about the possibility of a false positive and that he wants confirmation they won?t allow a ?sample? to be shipped to them to test for a false positive. Adam finally gets answers when he calls a company in Europe that confirmed that the test can detect 300 to 1,200 nanograms (that?s one-billionth of a gram) of codeine. Myth Confirmed.

Ahh, Didnt see that one, hehe, I remember MTV did some test on it and they had like a 50/50 positive and false so they couldnt confirm it.

Claim: The consumption of the poppy seeds used on bagels and muffins can cause positive results on drug screening tests.

Status: True.

Origins: Drug
testing has become more and more prevalent in our society, and while urine or blood analysis is one of the best ways to do that, the tests themselves are not always infallible and can sometimes produce skewed results. Indeed, something as innocuous as the poppy seeds on a bagel or muffin or in a slice of cake can make the drug-free look like heroin users.

Opiates (morphine and codeine) can be detected in urine for at least 48 hours after one eats food containing poppy seeds. As little as a single bagel covered with poppy seeds could produce a false positive test for these drugs.

In 1990, a veteran St. Louis police officer was suspended for four months because his drug test showed positive for morphine after he'd eaten four poppy seed bagels the day before the urine sample was taken. He was reinstated with back pay after it was determined that poppy seeds and not drug use had produced those results. His case was especially puzzling to the department because the officer in question had a steady work record and demonstrated no indications of any problems before this incident was flagged during a random drug screen. The department performed an experiment by having another officer eat four poppy seed bagels and take a drug test. He, too, tested positive for morphine, confirming the poppy seed effect theory..

In 1999, a New Jersey prison guard was fired for the same reason: a poppy seed bagel he'd had produced a positive drug test. His case was subjected to further examination, and he was reinstated seven months later.

In 1997, a woman in Florida was awarded $859,000 in her lawsuit against Bankers Insurance Group because it had withdrawn a lucrative job offer to her on the basis of her poppy seed-influenced drug screen results.

In 1994, a Baltimore woman lost her chance for a job with an inner-city community health center because of her failed drug test, which was once again the result of the nefarious poppy seeds. In this case, the woman's fondness for lean corned beef and provolone on a poppy seed bagel cost her the job she wanted, because this prospective employer would not allow her a second urinalysis nor believe that her morning nosh had caused those suspicious test results.

Because of the possibility of poppy seeds' skewing drug test results, federal prison rules prohibit inmates from eating this ingestible. Moreover, inmates on furlough are enjoined from eating baked goods that incorporate poppy seeds because of the effect it has on their drug tests. (Without the poppy seed prohibition, anyone using opium derivatives recreationally could attribute his positive drug test results to a fondness for these seeds. The prohibition removes that possibility.)

The Federal Bureau of Prison's Form BP-S291(52) contains, as one of the conditions a furloughed inmate must agree to:


It has been determined that consumption of poppy seeds may cause a positive drug test which may result in disciplinary action. As a condition of my participation in community programs, I will not consume any poppy seeds or items containing poppy seeds.
As to how seriously the "no poppy seeds" injunction is taken, inmates in halfway houses have been returned to prison because they violated it and consequently failed their urine tests.

Because the drug screen for the presence of opiates is so sensitive, some agencies that rely on it have raised the cut off level for a positive to 2000 ng/mL, which eliminates many of the poppy seed false positives.

Barbara "beware of the bagel" Mikkelson

Last updated: 5 August 2003

i failed one when i hadnt done anything in 6 months

Ya, it's an urban myth, that's why on the drug test form they specifically ask you if you ate any poppy seed muffins... cuz doctors are known for putting urban myth questions on the forms...