Did My Generic Adderall Cause Me To Test False Positive For Methamphetamine? (Page 4)
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I take d-amphetamine salt combos 20mg twice daily, and I recently had a hair drug test for pre-employment purposes. I tested positive for methamphetamine at a level of 570ng/mg, but I have never touched meth! They already did the GC/MS, and are now doing an isomer test, but they say that my adderall could NOT have cause a positive meth result! I've seen in other responses that this is possible, however I can't find any documentation to prove this. I've read over the Adderall and methamphetamine information profiles on this site, but still don't have the proof I need. Does anyone know where I can find this documentation? Please help!

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I just went through the same thing. I take prescription adderall xr, 10mg, and recently had a urinalysis drug test that came back positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine. I have taken adderall for years and this has never happened to me. I was taking no other medicine, prescription or over the counter that could have caused the positive meth result. The test was not an on-site dipstick or instant type drug test either, it was sent to a lab and the results even listed the amount of each drug that was in my system. The amount of amphetamine was somewhere around 2600 ng/ml and the amount of meth was somewhere around 2500 ng/ml. I have never taken meth, so of course i fought it, and paid to have more extensive testing done using the same specimen. I was completely humiliated, and I felt as if no one believed me that I was innocent. I even had a women tell me when I was requesting the paperwork to challenge the test " You know they are going to use the same urine sample, right?" I said, "yes, that is what I want them to do! The test results are wrong!" It took 5 days to get the results back, and those 5 days where horrible, but thank God the results came back negative and I was exonerated. What you need to do is verify that the lab performed a gs/ms test, and if that comes back positive for meth, have them do a test that will allow them to see the ratio of d-methamphetamine and l-methamphetamine isomers. If the d-methamphetamine is less that 20% of the total of the 2, then it is a false positive. ONLY street methamphetamine and one other medication called desoxyn can cause a true positive meth test result with the amount of d-meth over 20%. You can prove your innocence through these more advanced tests. If you have problems with the current lab, have your specimen sent to another lab that can perform those types of tests. Before my second results came back from the lab, I was literally going mad I was so stressed out. This could have cost me my job and caused my family many problems, as I have two small children and a husband who is in the military with a top secret security clearance. I spent the 5 days it took for the second test's results to come back researching the testing processes, the chemical makeup of methamphetamine and amphetamine, false positive drug results, as well as reading story after story about this happening to other people. It is terribly sad that so many others have lost their job, children, and freedom because of these inaccurate drug tests. Something needs to be done about this.

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Bottom line is there are many drugs that are similar, have the same effects, and test the same, People can get just as messed up and addicted to prescription drugs as they can non prescription drugs. Two people can take the exact same amount of the same drug and drive a car. If they are both pulled over for DUI and tested, the guy with the "prescription" will not be charged. The guy without the prescription will be charged with a felony in some states and sent to jail. So somehow, one guy
is a danger to society, is under the influence of a "dangerous drug" and should never be allowed to drive again, and the other guy is not, just because he has a piece of paper. Yeah, OK.

The Pharma companies create drugs all the time that mame or kill people. There is always some class action lawsuit going on about some drug they advertised on TV that turned out to be lethal, or caused serious harm to those who used it.
But hey, no law against those drugs. Every stupid drug commercial out there lists 1 or 2 things positive about the drug, followed by "may cause A, B, C, D, Heart attack or even Death" But they are legal and everyone should go out and get their prescription for that crap."

So the bottom line, is if the Rockefeller Dynasty or some other Big Pharma manufacturer is making money and has a patent, then you are free to get just
as addicted as you want, whether it kills you or not. If they don't have a patent
and aren't making money, it is illegal, and they will lock you up for having it or taking
it.
The same people who control this industry also control the FDA and the AMA, WHO, CDC, etc. So it's not about whether a food or drug is harmful to your health, it's about making sure those people make the money. John D. Rockefeller started these organizations back in the early 1900s for just that reason. To ensure nothing got thru that he couldn't patent or control. If they gave a damn one bit about whether or not it is harmful or fatal, Monsanto would not be the monster that it is today.

They cannot patent natural substances, and that's why Hemp is and will probably always be illegal. Rockefeller was behind that too.

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Gee, I'm only a Board-certified psychiatrist (General; Child & Adolescent; Forensic and Psychosomatic Psychiatry) with a PhD in Pharmacology and I can order a tox screen that will provide definitive evidence of literally any amphetamine, amphetamine salt or metabolite. Only a moron would claim to have taken Selegine, by the way. Exactly how stupid do we look. Incidentally,the Sandoz generic for Adderall IR tablets is the most reliable. Shire, the company that pulled Dextrostat (which was in every way equivalent to Dexedrine) in order not to damage sales of their new Golden Goose — Adderall in all those forms — took the money and sold the rights, proprietary information, trademarks, etc., to as cheap generic house. Cheap as in quality of their product. I don't like Adderall — it's a scattershot drug that makes no sense pharmacologically and there's no valid/reliable data to support its claims of gentle, progressive onset and the same for the drug's cessation of action. Dexedrine tabs (no longer marketed), Dexedrine Spansules (5-, 10- or 15mg time-release) or Dextrostat Tabs (5- and 10-mg; worked as well as the brand, but Shire didn't want to take any chances and pulled it without warning) simply are better drugs for any indication for amphetamines. A high school friend brought her son in — now age 10 — and despite the fact that he has always liked me and always behaves perfectly around me, with serious ADHD. About five or six years ago, when she was living in another city and home for a visit, I helped her out by prescribing Desoxyn (methamphetamine HCl) Syrup. No reason for her to lie to me and plenty of reason for me to believe a doc would be afraid to prescribe it. She had medical records; I did the standard stuff, although I knew the kid and I wrote the script. This year, I couldn't FIND any Desoxyn or methamphetamine 5mg tabs (one generic company makes them) available. Finally, I called a med school friend who works for Abbott, the company that introduced Desoxyn. Production suspended indefinitely; shipping suspended indefinitely. I asked if that was corporate-speak for "We don't want the honored and venerable name of Abbott Laboratories associated with ANYTHING that contains methamphetamine, even though Abbott Desoxyn (or generic methamphetamine tabs)have practically nothing in common with Crystal Meth. The drugs are absolutely not used an precursors or intermediaries in the manufacturer of that poisonous bootleg crap — if I can't get it for a patient on prescription, the dealers sure as Hell can't — and, of course, the prescription drug is exactly what the label says it is. This girl and I were good friends in high school and I made a few calls. Fortunately, there are no life-threaterning conditions for which Dexosyn and only Dexosyn in indicated — and no, I didn't try off-shore or shady Internet pharmacies.

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Yes it will if you take Sandoz/Eon marked E404 generic Adderall you WILL test positive for methamphetamine taken several hours prior to the test, at very high levels. No other generic will cause it. There is a particular "bioequivalent" that Sandoz is using that will fail the test. Since it is an ingredient they are using, hair test etc will show it as well.

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The D isomer found in meth will get you in the end. I have a script to adderall and psudoehedrine and still failed the gc/ms test. No way to out smart it. Stop lying to yourself and just quit before more pain is caused.

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You are screwed. So much for that job. Here's where the problem lies Meth partly turns into Amp, but Amp doesn't turn into Meth...at all. Especially not those levels. I don't know why they would even do the last test, which tests to see if something is l-amphetamine or d-amphetamine. If you were on a medication called Selegiline and they found Meth and Amp, then they would do that last test, because Selegiline breaks down into l-meth and l-amp. They would have to do that last test to find out if there was any d-meth and d-amp. If there was, the Selegiline excuse doesn't help ya an longer..

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Yes Adderall shows positive for methamphetamines on a five panel test.Only a molecular scientist can tell the difference.I know because I smoked meth and had a prescription for Adderall which I never used.

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Adderall does contain amphetamine, which is commonly reported as a false positive for Meth-amphetamine. So you are not alone on this.

Many pre-employment drug tests are cheap and often result in false positives, with a below average success rate. Most pre-employement test can only distinguish that you've had amphetamines and usually shows up wrong on the "type" of amphetamine; same goes for pain medications. If you were to get this same drug test at a rehab clinic or a hospital it probably would not have come up positive for Meth.

The information on the false positive for Meth is sourced from a Physician's Desk Reference, but can also be viewed by clicking here

I hope this information helps!

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