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opium is an opiate
oxy's and i think percs i could b wrong tho im not very experienced with opiates ive only done a few...but the night u said u felt sick from smoking...did u have any breathing problems thats another common things with opiates breathing is hard and heavy and oding on an opiate often leads to respitory failure
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weird, i have one of the test pads in front of me and it doesn't break down opiates from each other. it's either pos or neg for any of the opiates (this one is "MedTox Verdict II"...what law enforcement uses here). could your dr. be playing games with you? does s/he have any reason to keep you living in fear?
:confused: JAC....just a stab in the dark here m8, but have you been out to a bar or nightclub lately. I know over here there is alot of drink spiking going on so maybe this has happened to you? :mad: It doesn't have to be coming from your smoke m8, could be anyway that people can get it into you easily.
Gday Kiwi
yea i know that goes on alot here with rohypnol.Kiwi i havent been out to a pub or club in 2 years so ill rule that out.I dont even hang around anyone that takes nothing now but we all do smoke weed.
:eek: Well then that rules that out m8, I hope you find the answers Jac cos from a mothers point of veiw I can understand what you must be going though. Keep us informed my friend and I hope things work out for you ;)
Thanks Kiwi i will do that im hanging to find out what the hell ive taken and i will probably never know.Nobody will take him without me killing them first or them killing me.I swear if it comes to that then i might as well be dead because hes the love of my life and i couldnt live without him or cope with somebody else bringing him up.I know im not the best person in the world but i try my hardest to be a good mum and make sure he grows up strong and healthy with good morals as he has no dad anymore.If his father got him i would be devistated because if he grew up like that he will never have happiness and will be a violent bastard of a man.Monkey see monkey do.He has a good job he is an engineer so hes on alot of money and he gave billy back to me when i got out of the nuthouse because he knows that i look after him with all my heart and protect him so nothing bad happens to him while he is young.
Man thats pretty fucking weird, and well it could have been opium in my eyes that seems like the most reasonable explanation cuz ive smoked opium on some bud and if i didnt know it was put there i wouldnt have even noticed it, do you remeber if the bud popped and crackled more then usual? cuz that would be another good sign it was laced with some opium, well w/e it is i hope it works out sorry to hear all this!!
eyeah I hope it works out, you seem like a caring mothger and eveyrthing
plezase excuxze the typingg
Things that can cause a false opiate positive:
Prescription Meds:
Prescription pain medications that contain codeine (i.e Tylenol with Codeine, Emprin, Empracet, Fioricet with Codeine, Fiorinal with Codeine), hydrocodone (i.e. Vicodin, Lortab, Lorcet),oxycodone (i.e. Percocet, Percocdan, Endocet, Roxicet), methadone (Dolophine, Methadose)
Antibiotic used for the treatment of Tuberculosis: rifampicin (Rifadin, Rimactane)
Others:
Kidney Infection, Kidney disease, diabetes, liver disease,poppy seeds
Best of luck to you. I'm really sorry to hear about your false positive. It's a real shame as you seem, as Dick said, like a very caring mother.
Laboratories admit that urine tests are not always accurate. The manufacturers of all testing equipment acknowledge that all positive results should be confirmed with a more sophisticated test. The only acceptable confirmation test is the costly gas chromatography/mass spectrometer. Without confirmation by an alternative testing method, urine tests are not sufficiently reliable to hold up in court.
"Only 85 of the estimated 1,200 laboratories in the United States currently testing urine for drugs meet federal standards for accuracy, qualified lab personnel, and proper documentation and record-keeping procedures. Because private companies are not required to use certified labs, workers are being asked to put their job security in the hands of a test that has insufficient quality controls."
R. Brookler, "Industry Standards in Workplace Drug Testing," Personnel Journal, (April 1992).
Even in labs that do meet the minimum standards, there is plenty of room for error. Your urine sample will change hands many times before its actual analysis, which increases the risk of mix-ups and errors. Also, the chemical reagents used in testing have a limited shelf life, which can cause "false positives". (A false positive is a sample showing a positive when there are no metabolites in the person's system)
Most states do not regulate the operations of urine test labs; in fact, some labs have fewer quality control regulations than restaurants. Your typical private employer may use any lab she/he chooses, which would most likely be the least expensive. Findings from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta stated: "...the labs somehow detected cocaine in as many as 6 percent, and amphetamines in up to 37 percent of urine specimens that were 'blank" (those containing no drugs at all)."
False positives run high and no laboratory process is completely free from error. False positives also occur at high rates reported from 4 percent to over 50 percent. The high prevalence of false positives insures that people who are accused by the test are not necessarily drug users. False positives can occur for a number of reasons including: improper laboratory procedures, samples getting mixed up, paperwork being incorrect or lost, passive inhalation (second-hand smoke), and cross-reaction with prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications.
* A USA TODAY report indicated that 15 percent of all urine tests yield a false positive due to cross-reacting substances
* In a UCLA study of 161 legally prescribed and over-the-counter drugs, 65 gave false positive results
* A National Institute of Drug Abuse study of 50 labs revealed that all 50 labs responded with some false positive results.
False positives also can be caused by glitches in the testing technology. In a notorious 1984 incident, 60,000 Army personnel were informed that their tests had been wrong. To add insult to injury, federal drug testing costs taxpayers $500 million a year for urinalysis testing of government workers.
"Today, the most conservative estimates of the number of false positives per year run into the thousands. In fact, the highest estimate of accuracy reported to date shows one false positive in every 700 samples." Considering the number of times workers are tested, as many as 1 in every 15 workers can expect to have a false positive at some point in his or her career. B. Luberoff, cited in W. Holstein, "The Other Side of Drug Testing," Chemtech, (September 1992).
Just say NO to drug tests.