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What Is The Cause Of Methamphetamines?

I was given a oral saliva drug test during interview and received a call a couple days later saying I tested positive for methamphetamines - I don t use drugs but had been sick taking otc medications., we discussed and compared the medicines we had been taking as the employer was also sick. could a combonation of otc drugs caused a false positive
Tue, 1 Apr 2014
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Yes. This may be due to false positive reaction caused by the drug molecules having the similar properties as amphetamines if you have not used the Illegal stuffs.

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What Is The Cause Of Methamphetamines?

Hello, Yes. This may be due to false positive reaction caused by the drug molecules having the similar properties as amphetamines if you have not used the Illegal stuffs. Hope this helps.