methadone in drug screens

I have been going to a methadone clinc for 4 years,with 2 straight years of good drug screens,my councelor called me tdy and said that methadone didnt show up in my most recent test.i was on 80mg a day the last 2 months i droped down to 70 mg a day,but she is saying that there was none in my system.and that is just not humanly possible,so now i have to have a supervised drug screen done weekly.can anyone tell me what i should do? i go to a clinic can i request the test to be retested?

Sub doctors have a special test for this drug. At this point in time, it is not available to employment screens as it is very specific and very expensive. With time this will change, but not at this time you have a prescription correct? If it showed up, u would be ok? I do understand not wanting to broadcast u r on sub...unlike methadone, it is not an approved pain med in the US. It is only approved for addiction so saying u r on it is a dead give-away good luck getting ur job..

Thanks alot for the info guys I am slowly feeling alittle better

urine drug screens for jobs test for benzos, pot, cocaine, narcotics (not sub tho) but i do think methadone shows up on most 10 panel drug screens..5 panel are cheaper and what my hospital uses and hydro doesnt even show up..only morphine and codeine being the 2 true narcotics and the rest like oxy and hydro are synthetic...plus u have a scrip for the sub..dont worry..

The school he goes to drug screens him and it has always come back positive for PCP. No other drug screens - the criminal justice system or the hospital's test are positive for anything. Could any of his meds be the reason that he is showing up positive. He is not acting out when he has the positive screens so I have to believe it is the combination or one of the meds but the school believes otherwise. Help!

hey billy...is this girl in2 opiates and buying suboxone off street to try to get clean and avoid withdrawal from opiates?or is she just using the suboxone?if ur not an addict to use it alone u'll get real high off it and most likely real sick!

Most tox screens (like pre-employment drug screens) do NOT test for bupe, a special test that includes it must be done (either in the form of a dipstick test or using a special test cup that includes bupe). It's impossible to know whether a tox screen you're having done is going to include that, as more places are testing for it. Honesty is always the best policy, if you're taking a drug test for whatever reason be honest about what they could find.

do we have ANY rights here? DO people ON Methadone Maintenance of Suboxone HAVE any rights with regards to how we are treated and if we have put together all these years of compliance with not just urine screens but groups, counseling attendance (ALL SPOTLESS!) and behavioral issues, etc why can't we get ONE benefit of the doubt?

There are usually Pain Management contracts that you have to sign before they will treat you. That contract states they have a right to do random drug screens and the consequences associated with failed ones. If you have a contract please read it..... if you haven't already familiarize yourself with it. Frankly I would not be overly concerned, This is a requirement in most instances for all physicians the prescribe opiates on a long term basis. Please let us know how this turns out.

I have a very young relative that recently enrolled in a methadone clinic to help him with an addiction to OC. (However, I really think that in the past he has taken whatever he can get.) The current dose he is taking is 30, as he said that he opted for a lower dose so that he can be tapered off within six months. He goes every morning for a liquid dose and group counseling.

Last week I got a letter informing me I was dismissed from treatment from my Pain Clinic, after five years. Methadone did not show in my urine drug screen, despite the fact that I took methadone, literally every single day since the day it was prescribed (almost 4 years ago). Thank God, my PCP put me on tramadol which works very well for what is excruciating, gut wrenching pain in my back and hips.

here after a certain amount of time with no dirty drug screens etc they will let u have take homes..first to every other day/2 days take home then it gets to where u only go to the clinic once a week to pick up ur week's supply..at the clinic my son worked at, they use liquid m-done and the dose is taken once a day in front of the nurse at the clinic..when u want to get off the taper is under the doctor at the clinic's control and it can be frustrating/red tape as with any govt project..

Hi everyone I have not around for a few weeks I have not been feeling to well. I am here for some ideas and advice. I went to the suboxone doctor on Monday and I tested positive for benzo's. I was stunned when the test came back positive. I have not taken anything that is any form of a benzo and the doctor says that not any of the medicines I am on could cause a positive test.

Also of note - not all urine drug screens test for the same thing - this is usually determined by the cost factor - The more sensitive and comprehensiv ethe test, the more expensive. Darvocet tests positive if they are testing for propoxyphene - not all tests do this. I think I read somewhere that it can potentially test positive for methadone - I would have to look that up again to be sure. Water is helpful in a general sense but beware!

Has anyone had any experiences positive or negative regarding pre-employment drug screens that will obviously come up positive for prescribed drugs? I know I had to show proof years ago of my prescription and that doesn't bother me I just worry that I may be discriminated against just because of my medication.

The labs as well as my new doctors, all say that the medications not showing in my drug screens is due to fairly low dose meds & a fast metabolism, and that I simply burn the meds up in a matter of hours…This would explain why I have always been able to stay on low doses, as well as recognizing that I have always been medication sensitive, as I have had adverse effects to dozens of medications over the years, sometimes serious.

My daughter is nine months pregnant with twins and in recovery since January. She says she has been clean for the entire time, yet she has had two dirty screens - one October 15th and the second November 10th. Since she participates in our state's Drug Court, she is tested every Monday, Wed., and Friday and hasn't missed a screening since beginning in January.

Sweetheart, I know an awful lot about this subject- unfortunately. It is correct that it is most definitely 300mgs. per day. It sounds to me that he probably has his own doctor who may be prescribing him somewhere in the range of 120-200 mgs. dependent upon his pain/addiction issues. As for the rest of his stash- he's probably buying or trading them from someone in lieu of another drug- most likely Xanax. It's a cocktail most people on methadone enjoy.

Hello and Welcome to the Pain Mangement Forum. I am sorry that this has happened to you. Urine drug screens are looking for narcotics, THC and similar substances. Lidocaine is from the "cain" drug family of local numbing agents and not the "caine" drug family of cocaine an opiate. In spite of the similarity in names, these drugs are not very closely related chemically and their chemical structures are very different.

Dude, I have been taking tabs, and MS Contin regularly for over 10 years and can easily take ten Norco 10s and go to work or play basketball just fine. But withdrawals are awful unless I have dones. I mean it...If you take like 3 dones at first (crush and snort) then add one at a time about every 4 hours or so (the half-life crap of hydroco and semi-synthetic opiates isn't the same w/dones....

Hi, Tramdol is a synthetic opiate and also has SNRI properties. The withdrawal from Trams can be daunting because of typical and a-typical withdrawals. It's a double whammy in that regards (believe me since I'm on day 17 of Tram detox). The acute phase of the WD's weren't as bad as I'd experienced during Methadone withdrawal but they were no walk in the park.

Once you get up much higher than 70, methadone is like a different drug in my experience. When I was on 110, I had terrible nightmares and a sedated kind of paranoia. I sweat like a pig and was a contipated duck. You don't want to be a contipated sweating zombie. all the best.

5/750 nightly. Will a urine or hair drug test be able to tell the difference in my taking 1/2 of 7.5/750 versus my prescription for 5/500?

My Son is 23 yeas old lives with me his Dad, He has had problems with Heroin on and off since 2005 that I know of, he spent 60 Days at a Rehab on the West Cost that I am still paying for looked great when he came home, in PA, started using again about 2 months after retuning, then went to detox after I through him out, spent a week in Detox, and then started on a Methadone treatment center, he was clean for 2 years, now he has stolen from me, and just cam clean this past weekend and admitt

My fiance and I are detoxing from methadone - we were at 110mg. in Aug.'07, tomorrow we will dose @ 33mg. - For us, upon much research about this drug, it became very important to detox before 1 year. We began the clinic in April '07 and March 6 will be our last dose. The withdrawals from methadone can be debilitating, but there are many natural remedies that make a lot of difference. You are right in taking the vitamins, aminos, etc.

They do show up on drug screens. As I take random drug tests where I work. Research it on yahoo search and see if it has a benzo metabolite. As long as you have script your okay. If not then we all know this is a different story. Wish you luck.

Can you take methadome along with clonapin. I was prescribed methadone for pain and was on clonapin. I was told by the Dr who prescribed the clonapin that this mixture can cause respiratory distress and even death.

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