Suboxone And Pre Employment Drug Screen (Page 6)
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I am prescribed suboxone for an opiate addiction maintenance program. First, will it show up in a ten panel test? Second, can an employer discriminate if they have already offered me the job? Third, is this violating any privacy laws?

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It does not come up as an opiate, been on it 5 years not once have i been pos, for opiates, has to be a special test to find the medication, if you having a urine drug screen , then you have no worries

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okay, people suboxone DOES NOT show up in a drug screen especially a urine drug screen been on it 5 years and not once has it ever shown up on a drug screen, you can tell them you are on it all you want, but it does not show up as an opiate! it does not! They have to do a special test to check for bup, So please people know what you are talking about before you post things having people all worked up on lack of knowledge. this is wrong if you dont know what you are talking about please do some research, for the guy whom was nervous over his urine screen , he had nothing to worry about it never shown up im positive of that fact

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I am prescribed suboxone and have taken numerous drug screens for my employment and none have ever tested for suboxone.

Trust me you don't have anything to worry about.

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I have been on suboxen for quite a while but I am clean from heroin for almost 4 yrs. I have a drug test on Tuesday morning at 10 am. Its now sunday around 5 pm. I don't have a valid prescription for suboxen I need to know how do I make sure my urine comes back clean.

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Just curious...what state was this that u gave birth in? I know someone in a similar situation.

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I was drugtested every week for nine months and suboxen never came up in my system. One time my dr's office mixed my urine up with someone else and said I had opiates in my system. They retested me on the spot and my test came up negative for opiates. I was on suboxen (1 tablet a day) during my whole pregnancy. Social services at the hospital even tested me and my son when he was born, and we came up clean as a whistle. They never found out and luckily my son was perfect and had no withdraw or complications from the drug. God looked out for me. I was on eight 30mg percocets a day when I found out I was pregnant. I immediately stopped and started buying suboxens on the street the whole pregnancy. the only thing is that it took extra strong dosage of meds in the epidural and in my c-section because of the opiate blocker and I felt alot of my c-section so they eventually knocked me out cold, but they never dtected why and that I was on subs.

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thank you for replying, it has been a week since I did take the test.I told the people at (quest) the place where i got my screen, they replied by telling me that they used to ask whoever is taking the test to verify any prescripts that you are on. However this time they did not. When I volunteered to let them know they replied that they do not need to know up front. They did say that they appreciated the honesty, however i didnt need to advise them of that.
Anyway, I started my first day on the job yesterday. No issue ever came up about it. As far as I know it they didnt test for it. I know i have it in my system because ive been on it for months now. OH well, i do appreciate your response even though it didnt turn out like you said. however good luck to all the people who are fighting the struggle with addiction. Wheter you choose to take suboxone, subutex, or methadone, or perhaps just doing a 12 step. whatever you do please stick to it and ghange your life. god bless

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Yes, Suboxone contains the narcotic Buprenorphine, so it will show up on a test.

No, they cannot discriminate, that is illegal.

And no, it does not violate any privacy laws. You do not have to discuss with them why you are on it.

You just need to inform them that you are on it, when you go in to have the test. They have the right to verify that it is being used under a doctor's orders and it will, more than likely, negate that part of the drug screen test.

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