Originally posted by gull80
Right. That's like the patient we saw recently who explained his positive tox screen (for cocaine) on the fact that he was in a room with other people who were abusing the drug (but he of course was not).
In a previous life, I handled the liability insurance for a drug screening company. One lady sued the company claiming a false positive for cocaine because she ate a poppyseed bagel prior to the test. I can't recall the final outcome but we hired another lab that said she would have to eat a few dozen poppysee bagels to have this actually happen. Maybe what she meant was she was sprinkling cocaine on her poppyseed bagel before eating it.
Originally posted by gull80
Right. That's like the patient we saw recently who explained his positive tox screen (for cocaine) on the fact that he was in a room with other people who were abusing the drug (but he of course was not).
In a previous life, I handled the liability insurance for a drug screening company. One lady sued the company claiming a false positive for cocaine because she ate a poppyseed bagel prior to the test. I can't recall the final outcome but we hired another lab that said she would have to eat a few dozen poppysee bagels to have this actually happen. Maybe what she meant was she was sprinkling cocaine on her poppyseed bagel before eating it.
