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What OTC Drugs Can Test Positive For Meth?
Question: I need a list of over the counter meds that test pos. for meth I don't do meth and I got a pos
Brief Answer:
Quite a few but
Detailed Answer:
the test has a few percentages of false positives anyway. This is true of the standard IMMUNOASSAY method that is quite similar to home pregnancy tests (but less accurate).
This is the article you want
http://www.yyyy.org/yyy/0000/0000/yyyyy.html
decongestants and zantac. this includes apparently vicks vap a rub?!?
but remember that
1) there is a significant false positive rate even when you DON't Take those drugs
2) the better mass spec test doesn't have as many flaws.
I am not sure about hair testing because the decongestants are really similar to methamphetamine. I think you probably have to have cut off values that overlap between decongestants and very rarely used very low levels of methamphetamine being indistinguishable, but I am not sure. A retest of the SAME SAMPLE with the mass spect test (which might be 300 bucks but, worth it) will rule out false positives.
Quite a few but
Detailed Answer:
the test has a few percentages of false positives anyway. This is true of the standard IMMUNOASSAY method that is quite similar to home pregnancy tests (but less accurate).
This is the article you want
http://www.yyyy.org/yyy/0000/0000/yyyyy.html
decongestants and zantac. this includes apparently vicks vap a rub?!?
but remember that
1) there is a significant false positive rate even when you DON't Take those drugs
2) the better mass spec test doesn't have as many flaws.
I am not sure about hair testing because the decongestants are really similar to methamphetamine. I think you probably have to have cut off values that overlap between decongestants and very rarely used very low levels of methamphetamine being indistinguishable, but I am not sure. A retest of the SAME SAMPLE with the mass spect test (which might be 300 bucks but, worth it) will rule out false positives.
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