Wiil Ranitidine Produce A False Positive For Methamphetimines In Hair Follicle Test And Where Is The Proof? (Top voted first)

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While I was pregnant I was prescribed to take ranitidine for heartburn. After my child was born I took a urine test that came up negative. Cps sent these sample off and said I tested positive for meth. I submitted to a hair test on my child and a nail test on myself. The results were positive for meth. The Metabolites were very low in both of us but the amphetimine levels were high, but I had ephedrine during the c section. Will ranitidine cause a false positive in a hair test and where is the documented proof? They have taken my newborn away from me its five days now without touching or seeing her. I am desperate to get my baby back. If a doctor responds please be willing to submit documentation in writing. Thank you to anyone with the answer.

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This is terrible!!! And yes zantac does give a false positive for Meth.... Google it and there is documentation. I take zantac and had a drug test through my job and it came back positive for Meth. MY DOCTER gave me documentation to prove I wasn't on this terrible drug (Meth) along with some ducuments I printed from Google I was able to keep my job!

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It is eight months now. Still do not have my daughter. I am writing the governor today. I am going public also. I have three scientific studies that say zantac will cause a false positive. I have done their classes and passed all their drug screens. Now they are trying to bring criminal charges against me. The nightmare continues. Pray for us. I miss my little girl so much.

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Thank you mam for responding. You have been the only one. Since this post I have been found to be a mother of severe child abuse and neglect. It's now been four months. What doctor gave you this documentation? I will go to the ends of the earth to obtain it. My baby tested positive for marijuania but I did not. The whole ordeal has been a nightmare. Pray for my family and give me the Dr s name and I will contact him. Again thank you for responding. God is working.

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Hey, this is happening to me as well. I had my daughter taken away from me by the DYP/CPS @ 2 days old.
I was taking ranitidine as well and tested positive for meth. Which I have never used. I had to submit
My hair sample, and we are waiting for results. We have our daughter back, but under my boyfriends custody, and we have to live at his parents house, and do random drug tests (which we've passed, cause were not users or addicts)
I cannot find a doctor, nurse, lab tech or
Pharmacist who is even willing to say that this is possible.
Please contact me so we can communicate. I hope everything got sorted out for you. This is a nightmare, and until this I thought I was the only one.

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I haven't met one doctor who wants to say its the cause, just that it could happen but they don't say a yes or no.
I passed my hair strand test, and I find it hard to fail that if you're not on drugs.
That being said, please read the links I posted they are Uni studies about urine tests and blood and this subject.
If you are innocent I hope it gets proven.
Either way, if CPS is in your life its better to just co operating because unfortunately they have too much power. Innocent or not.. Good luck

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I hitred a good female lawyer and my husband has one we are goin to crt this mrning i went and had a hair folicle test done yesterday independently the doctor i used is an expert and has fifteen yrs of experience. He is the go to guy for the crts and even dhr in a surounding county.
He said he wld testify that ranitidine causes false positive test all the time and that he wld help in any way he could.

I was so relieved that someone the judge trust agteed with us and sympathized eith this crazy sutuation.

Thank u for your help and godbless you plz pray for us!

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Society has deemed certain street drugs unacceptable. Heroin, methamphetamine, crack. There's a lot of disinformation out there and a ton of ignorance... First of all, I've done every drug in the book. Cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin/opium, methamphetamine, special K, MDMA OR MDA, acid, psilocybin mushrooms, DMT, all types of benzodiazepines, all types of narcotic opioid pharmaceutical drugs. The pharmaceutical companies worldwide sell billions of dollars worth of heroin and methamphetamine to people every year, the thing is they put fancy names on it, with fancy logos, manufactured in sterile labs with all the ingredients controlled by the FDA and with lots and lots of quality control and finally, marketing. Because you get it from your ever so trusted family doctor, you consider it acceptable and ok, politically correct even. They do have pills called Methamphetamine HCI and IR. Although prescribed very limited throughout the country, it is available, you can get it prescribed to you from any doctor legally and pick it up at your local Walgreens. It was mainly used for diet decades ago but still very rarely these days.. If it all used its used for certain conditions like brain injuries, misfiring of the brain signals and for certain types of nerve damage and paralysis to help recovery.. Also used for adult deficits of hyperactivity and hyperfocus conditions. Although rarely.. Mostly you'll get dexadrine or adderall which is both a strong amphetamine and has the same effect as methamphetamine, just not molecularly identical.

OPIOID PAIN KILLERS aka LEGAL ACCEPTABLE HEROIN you can buy from your local pharmacy via your doctor's usually reluctant recommendation. Billions of $$ worth sold annually. We accept it because it's "approved" by the FDA, manufactured in a sterile environment and ingredients are considered safe and we know what's in it (we think we know what's really in food and drugs approved by the FDA). The differences between pharmaceutical drugs and street drugs is obvious. Street drugs do have quality control standards and cars and thought is put into the original product at its origin but once it starts getting into hands of the middle men, the big dealers and the little dealers, the drugs often get cut down, watered down with "neutral" ingredients to make the product weigh more or go further. You probably wont believe this but the amount deaths every year due to unknown dangerous ingredients in heroin, coke and methamphetamineare just a tiny fraction compared to the deaths from unknown or unexpected side effects from the supposed "safe" and socially accepted pharmaceutical drugs we take in the USA. The media, police, etc, they aren't going to tell you that pharmaceutical drugs are responsible for more deaths every year than methamphetamine, coke and heroin. And they keep pushing the idea that street drugs are high up on the deadly list. It's easy to frown upon street drugs and not frown upon their cousins which are pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmacy drugs are tested, controlled, clean, safe, right? Street drugs are completely unregulated, largely untested, contain really nasty ingredients like diesel fuel byproducts in cocaine, solvents and industrial cleaning products in methamphetamine, and so on...

Well according to studies, the amount of those byproducts in street compared to how much street drugs are ingested, they've never really been known to cause any deadly harm if used off and on or during a ten year addiction.. Nope, it's actually the opiates, the various benzodiazepines and the countless psychotropic, psychiatric and other dangerous mind and brain pathway altering substances that are the most deadly. Partially from the pure fact of physical addiction from opiates and benzos and the other psychiatric medicine cocktails that do ireversible damage to your brain, serotonin, various other chemicals that get permanently imbalanced.. And we're all being told every day that street drugs are a bigger issue? Bulls***. I've done every drug that has recreational potential and I've did my experiments. I've had my fun and out of all those drugs, the one drug that messed me up the most mentally and physically was the benzodiazepines and psychiatric medicines, anti depression, anti anxiety, etc etc etc... I don't remember which of the 100 anti depressant pills I took but it threw me into a different world by the second day and it had terrible side effects that took months to go away and I only took them for a week. No street drug or recreational drug has ever messed me up for months or even more than a few days, nothing more than a little hangover. I AM NOT CONDONING THE USE OF HEROIN, COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, K, any street drug, MDMA OR THE ABUSE OF ANY PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG. To the right person, it really does only take that one time because without that one first time, a drug addiction to that drug could not ever begin.. So if you aren't like me and cannot stop taking a drug that you love the feel of, if you have a weak mind or weak will power, have an addictive personality, don't try heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or any controlled pharmaceutical drug. I don't condone it all but I do not support the entire anti-drug movements.

People are going to take the drugs they want to take, period. Prison, fines, etc, is not going to stop it. People either have their fun with the drugs or ruin their life on their own. We don't need the govt ruining it further. If you have a methamphetamine or heroin addiction, it controls your every thought and you are most likely going to be possessing the drug.. In many states still, any amount of methamphetamine or heroin or crack is an instant felony and often mandatory jail.. Plus you have to give the state money you don't have. As if your life isn't already bad enough, the govt steps in and makes it worst.. You lose your possessions, job if you have one, car, apartment you're renting.... All so they can throw you in jail for a year. The criminalization of drugs in the USA has not proven a single thing good.. It's done mostly harm.. Making it highly illegal hasn't reduced its quantity in the USA at all!!! It's just made it more abundant because when it's forced to be taboo and illegal then it creates a hugely valuable black market for cartels and whoever else.. The CIA and DEA of course are all in on the drug trade but that's for another discussion. Point is, drugs are just drugs, the user makes them good or bad or neutral.. The main entity that has basically kept street drugs as evil as they are is the govt.. By not helping the addicts, instead they are focusing on punishment and controlling the substance because that's where the money is at.. There's no money is decriminalization.. It's too late to do what Netherlands have done.

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here are 2 studies i have found, hope this gets resolved for you if you truly are innocent.

medscape.com/viewarticle/726897

dig.pharm.uic.edu/faq/2011/Feb/faq1.aspx

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Im experiencing a similair situation plz let me knw if this hair folicle test helped. If this zantac medication caused a false positive for the folicle test as well. Ty godbless {edited for privacy}

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I have recently lost my three year old, not even due to drugs. However when I took the panel ua I tested positive for methamphetamine. I was told right then and there that is was because of the ranitidine, and have tested positive every time. If you were actually taking methamphetamine it would come back amphetamine and methamphetamine. These tests are pure bulls***, and after testing positive be prepared to be treated like you're a junkie or no good. It's scary that most trained professionals don't even know what type of interactions prescriptions they're are writing could have. It is truly ducking me.

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Need prayer really bad today please.

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Plz help three children taken by cps i tested positive for meth while taking ranitidine plz let me knw about any doc laywers or avenues we might take to prove my innocence. I have read on other forums and sites ppl hace actually tested positive in a hair folicle test because of zantac. I requested a hair folicle test to proove my innocence.any links or info wld be much apreciated. Plz pray for us. Godbless u.

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Court went as expected the social wrkers are convinced that i failed that test but i past mpassed my hair folicle test so we will see wht happens....keep u updated.

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Someone needs to do something thats for sure. U mentioned a tv crew is it for tv as in cable or news? My lawyer contacted zantac there is a huge fda investigation goin on zantac released a legal printout that explained that Zantac is indeed causing False positives. But still nothing has concinced the case workers not even the hair strand test. Even tho its valid proof. I feel powerless. My kids and i dont deserve this. Let me knw how things are going when u can ...

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Here is one of the reports. They messed up a few facts. I've asked them to correct them.

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/03/18/montreal-baby-taken-away-child-youth-protection-services-royal-victoria.html

This is the video interview in French

radio-canada.ca/widgets/mediaconsole/medianet/6630621

Going to be on the radio at 6:40 am tomorrow on 88.5FM. ON CBC DAYBREAK.

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Here is the radio interview: cbc.ca/daybreakmontreal/our-show/2013/03/19/family-lodges-complaint-after-baby-was-taken-at-birth. That would be amazing. Our next & last court date is April.3rd where the DYP is saying they are discontinuing the case.
After this we are just going to turn over a new leaf. I will address the court none the less & say my peace. I have a letter from the hair strand lab confirming my hair is being analyzed for the days in question. I spoke to a lawyer about going any further and she said because we signed a provisonary agreement we "admitted" our daughter was at risk of negligence. However we were willing to sign anything to get her back ASAP as we knew we didn't have anything to hide. I will mention this in court as well.
If your lawyer could do anything in writing to show that statement from Zantac or where I could find anything legit on it would be amazing.
I am happy we aren't the only
People this happens to. An hope we can make it known in order
For this not to happen to more innocent families.
I wish you the best & am sending your strength.

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Mrs call I hope everything is going okay for you.
We are going to court on Wednesday. Where they will be discontinuing our case & I will be saying a few words to the court room. I just have a letter from the hair strand clinic saying my hair is in process of being tested for the months of January & feb. I wish I had more concrete paperwork about the medication.
I hope all is well, I will update when my 2nd results come In.
I am confident it will all be negative. Because the first test the DYP did was from
December to 6 months back. I didn't do drugs then and I didn't do drugs in January before my daughter was born.

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Submit a requst to the contact page so we can exchange info. Looking forward to hearing from you. I can help you w what u need for court. And am anxious to update u and fill you in on info but my attney doesnt wannt want me subnittin info publicly.

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OK I submitted the request. i hope it gets answered quickly! you have no idea how much this could help me.
i really hope we get in touch, my heart is racing right now!
did you fill out the contact form as well?

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I take 300 mg Ranitadine twice daily and EVERY single time I have to go in for a drug test for potential employers, if they use the "rapid response" cups, the ones that have the result strips built in....it always gives a positive for methamphetamines, but then they send it to the lab and it comes back negative. The problem is that some companies refuse to spend money sending to a lab and rather just assume you are a dopehead and so no job. I think they need to change or get rid of these cups. People loosing jobs and BABIES !!! This is ridiculous!!

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