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Can Pain pills give a false positive result in a blood test? My brother was admitted to hospital where he tested positive for cocaine as well as pain pills. He says he has not been involved with cocaine. He does have hepatitis C and we have been told if you have a bad liver you will test positive for cocaine.

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Apparently certain liver diseases can provoke a positive result for cocaine. I'm not sure why this is, but other individuals have complained about this occurrence too, so it seems fairly common.

I am also aware that on the cheaper, less reliable drug tests, it seems anything is possible. False positives are known to occur on them anywhere from 4 to 50% of the time; and this doesn't just pertain to pain pills, but almost all pills in general.

Has your brother tried to dispute this false positive?

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Yes he has disputed the results of the blood test. We were just worried because he is waiting on back surgery and he was taking too many pain pills to begin with. He ran out of pain pills on Friday an on Sunday was admitted to the hospital wit DT's from the pills. I thought he may have taken cocaine trying to mask the pain.

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