Benzos False Positive

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Hi, I'm really upset today because I'm in drug rehab (voluntarily) and was told today that I tested positive last week for opiates and benzodiapines. I am positive that I haven't taken any of these! I have been really working hard in rehab and am devastated by this'! I had one relapse and admitted it, even though it never came up on a test. The only medications that I have been taking any differently are some nighttime cold medicine for cough and a generic like Walgreens version if Benadryl during the day for allergies. Also I'm on prescriptions; Wellbutrin, Buspar, Resperidone and Trazadone, but I've been on them for awhile and haven't come up positive. I've been racking my brain trying to think of what could've happened and am so worried that I will come up positive and be kicked out after doing so well for 7 months! I just need advice, I want my counselor to believe me, but I know she doesn't.

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It might have been an ingredient in the cold medicine, but I can't be sure without knowing exactly what you took.

None of the others that you listed have been known to cause false positives for Benzodiazepines.

Learn more Benzodiazepines details here.

Can you post back with more details on the cold remedy?

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Hi, thank you for your response. I know I took NyQuil and I'm pretty sure I took tylenol severe cold and flu nighttime (because it was on sale). I only ever really took NyQuil, cause it works for me, but I think I took that one too. I can't think of anything that I took in the daytime besides the Benadryl, sometimes when I have a bad enough cold I'll take Contac...but I'm not positive if I took that. I'm sorry I know it's not that clear, but if you have any input that could clarify this. If its none of these is there any other reason I could've tested positive? I just really need to know what to avoid, if I put something in my system because this has really dragged down my morale and I've been trying so hard to be sober.

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Have you taken anything 2 help you sleep?Ambien will come back 4 Benzos and thats deff no mater what others say ha don know anything.its a 100% true.I dont know about anyother sleeping aids,but Ambien will give you a pos ad n that sux.Ask yer Doc next visit//if u dont have a script for them already/// ,if he gives you a script then youll be fine.If not ,jus say you had trouble sleeping and asked yer Mother for one to hwelp n you didnt know that hey could give u a positive 4 a drug soooo unrelated to what u took it 4.Not only that,you didnt think that sleeping pills were something tha would show up on a test.So you looked it up on the Computer and it showed that it will give a false positive,and it can b looked up n proved 100% tghat its true.And that u would never chance ruining wat you have going,your doing it for your family,so please give you some help,i wouldnt ven drink because im so scared of messing up the good thing i have going.Peace and thats for all answers n help.Bu Ambien giving a false dirty is a 100% true and if you took that,its deff the reason you came up dirty.Hope you and any others that read this learned the truth and dont make anymore mistakes.And dont let others give u false info saying hey know.I 100% know,been through his oo long and would never open my mouth 2 hurt someone if i didnt know the truth.This is 2 big of a deal 2 give someone the wrong info where it could get them in bad trouble.Id say good luck,but with this info,you don need it.Peace and Stay Safe,KB

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Yes mam benadryl can give you a false positive for benzos. I'm going through this same thing only at my methadone clinic and may loose all my take homes that I've worked my butt off to get. Ive been sober for 2 and a half years and never failed a drug test. Until I got a cold and took benadryl and had a drug test 4 days later poped positive for benzos.

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Benadryl(diphenhydramine) can cause false positives for benodiazapines and the DXM in cough syrup can cause false positives for opiates for sure!

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It was most likely the Benadryl, I tested postive for benzoz not to long ago and the only thing I had taken was Benadryl,so I would stay away from that.I have read a lot of other stories about people getting a false negative for benadryl.

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I took benadryl and am voluntarily going to an out patient suboxone rehab and it caused me to test positive for methadone I watched my counselor do my drug test right in front of me and the only 2 things I take are suboxone and benadryl

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If you took benadryl then that is 100% why your test came back positive. One dose of 25mg can show positive results of Benzos. These clinics should of known this. Don't beat yourself up with this. You know that you have been clean & that's what matters.

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Hi I took advil pm and saw that it can cause a false positive for oxazpam thats wht came up in my urine I have 28 or months clean I lost my three yake home bottles no one over my hospital believes me and in the urine that came back with the oxazpam in it there were no Advil pm even though I know I took them the night before my urine after I found out about the urine coming back dirty I didnt take anymore advils I got the results for the dirty one on monday and I took another urine on Wednesday and the oxazpam wasnt in there but the advil pm was I dont understand it I know I didnt take anything I just want to prove it

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I did a drug test with urine and it tested positive for benzos in my system and i dont take any benzos. So can you tell me if food coloring would make you test positive for benzos?

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