Will Neurontin Give False Positive On Drug Testing
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I will be going back to work and will be testing for illegal drug use. I am on Neurontin due to a medical problem. Will I get a FALSE POSITIVE result on a test for illegal drugs?

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Re: Misty (# 81) Expand Referenced Message

The same thing happened to me today at parole. I am on Vivatrol and there is no way I would have used. It is being sent to a lab. Will it still come up positive on a lab test? Please let me know if you know about it. Thank you.

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Re: Stephanie (# 8) Expand Referenced Message

I tested posted for Oxy today and the only thing I have taken is Gabapentin

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The cutoff levels are more than fair. No way Neurontin causes a false positive. I have 3 of my last urine results in front of me. 10 panel lab test. I always have very small amounts of amphetamine and barbiturate in my system but nowhere near the cutoff level to render a positive result. That's why they have cutoff levels. It eliminates all doubt.

Unless the person who is administering the test is incompetent. I've never had a false positive for anything and I've taken a lot of different pharmaceuticals. One thing I've noticed is that if I drink coffee or energy drinks before I give my sample, my amphetamine levels will actually go up. But even after 4 cups of coffee I was 6x below the cutoff. Lab tests are dead accurate!

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Re: Stephanie (# 8) Expand Referenced Message

Stop taking oxy's and s*** then looking for excuses. You're lying.

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Re: steven (# 3) Expand Referenced Message

Following... This exact thing just happened to me. I went to the hospital and tested positive for cocaine and I haven't touched that drug. Never have, never will. But I take gabapentin 600 mg twice every day since I had back surgery and neuropathy. And I came up false positive for cocaine at the ER tonight!!! Wth? Absolutely NOT possible!

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Re: brandon (# 22) Expand Referenced Message

I am experiencing the same issue and Redwood needs to correct this issue. These results are being used for court case abd could declare someone's freedom, child custody, etc. Even though the ordering agency is suppose to rely simply on GC/MS results they do not and therefore I will have no recourse but to challenge Redwood Lab results and have my urine retested by an external independent laboratory because it could result in lost custody. I am not and have not used benzos but am on a high dosage of neurontin. If anyone has a number for this lab please follow up

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If you don’t like getting false positives, consider your dose of Gabapentin, 800mg 6x daily is extreme. It is not surprising if you are trying to recover from drugs, that you want a high dose. But having worked in a rehab, I’ve worked with many clients who kept requesting higher doses expecting results when half of the battle is self work. Methadone is a drug as well, and obviously it will come up positive. It’s a drug. If you don’t like false positives, consider trying abstinence. Personally I think Methadone is a bigger problem and have seen people get DUIs after going to get their dose. That didn’t surprise me either, most I’ve come in contact with after their dose were slurring words and not functioning 100%. Of course, I don’t agree with them getting charged for a DUI when they were being prescribed and Methadone clinics are very aware people drive after. However, it’s your body. Why risk your life and legal credibility? Find a doctor you can be honest with and work with to manage your prescriptions. Also, Kratom may be legal but it tests you positive at times. There’s an opioid derivative. Don’t expect mandated programs to excuse it because it’s substituting a drug for another drug.

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i faiked a lab drug screen today for gabapentin and ive never taking nothing like this at all and i want to prove that i didnt and i cant plz help does this happen a lot or what can i do to fight it

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Re: Theresa (# 6) Expand Referenced Message

I think that the ones that do the drug tests should know which medicine can cause false positives. Even if they don't know, they can use that wonderful new fangled gadget called Google. I was actually looking it up to see if it is used as a mood stabilizer. I'm not liking the side effects of the Depakote and the other day when nobody showed up at the psychiatrist office there was a lady who had been waiting since 12:30. After finally getting in touch with the secretary, she asked us what meds we were on and I overheard her say Neurontin. So while looking online it says that it may cause a false positive; doesn't specify what it could come up as. I would have told them to run it again and to prove that you are being honest, I'd tell em do a hair sample. The thing is that they can go back 6 months with a hair test. I hope that everything worked out for you and you were able to keep your license.

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They indeed can tell exactly what you take. The labs can run specific tests to determine exactly what was used. I had court today and had a false positive for cocaine and have no idea why. I'm feeling very defeated and sad as I keep having marijuana levels going up and down as well. I'm not sure weekday to do.

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Can marijuana give a false positive for benzos? Iv been clean for 3months and go the clinic for random drug test and have taken no tablets or drugs other then marijuana but my urine test came back positive for benzos!! Really confused..

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I'm in a drug treatment residentual program, I am perscribed Gabbapentin and Naproxin. A drug test show's positive for morphine, xanax, oxicontin, and oxicodone. The program will send the results to my legal mandation committee. They could remand me to jail.

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First off, OxyContin is an opiate....?

On methadone but no opiates for 10 years? Come on. We see through your lies.

I can't tell if you're trying to look cool & pretending to know what you're talking about or if you're the dumbest dopehead I've ever heard. Addicts know a hell of a lot about what they're taking.

If you are you are on methadone and take a drug that isn't prescribed to you, that is exactly what happens. Good job at keeping up the stereotype that addicts are lying *****s.

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This happened to me at my Methadone clinic in tested positive for gabapentin which I'd never even heard of let alone taken. Trying to figure it out too.

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If the Dr sends it in to a lab they can determine every individual pill u have taken. Trust me, my Dr busted me. I was on oxycodone, and took a Percocet 10, and a Norco 10, and he read off every pill...labs are a b**** to beat...

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Yes it can it has been showing for suboxone for me

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I took an instant drug test today & it showed positive for oxy. I'm prescribed suboxone & neurontin. My home confinement officer sent it to thee lab & it should be back Mon or Tue. When you tested positive for oxy did they send it off too? I'm worried. I shouldn't be cause I haven't taken oxy for at least 10 years. Plz lmk. Ty

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I took a drink test. Im perscribed neurontin and they said it came back that I had oxycodone in my system. I have never took oxycodone. It's complete bs!

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I recently was drug-tested and my drug test was positive for methamphetamines but I don't use drugs I think it was because of my Neurontin the company manager has called me back and I need proof that Neurontin causes a false positive on a drug screen

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At a Methadone clinic they 'should' be able to further test the urine for further analysis to see if it's just trace amounts (depending on the amount of neurotin you were taking). I came up positive for opiates after 14 years clean and we discovered it was from poppy seed bagels (like 3 of them I ate 3 days before). I never knew that whole poppy seed thing was true. Anyway, they believed me and they tested it and it came up so low they let me keep my take home meds. I lucked out!

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