drug screening

[taminiski]

My son tested + for Morphine on a uds. Would Tylox or oxycodone cause that?

[RunningMom]

It's illegal to take any prescription medicine not prescribed to you.  I hear of so many people being offered medicine and they don't know what it is.  They think it's over the counter and when in fact it is prescription.  That is why you should never ever take any medicines unless they are your own, including over the counter.

I agree with the errors in regards of the testing.  Once something shows up like this, it's hard to clear your name.  UA testing is frightening for all of us.

[Jaybay]

It's a federal crime for a patient to give a narcotic medication to anyone else; and it is also a crime for the receiving party to accept it.  There's a reason for those warning labels on the bottles - not that they're much of a deterrent to people who are determined to treat narcotics as playthings.

The sad thing is that errors can and do happen.  Test samples can get contaminated or a sloppy lab technician can make mistakes.  There is no possible way to prove anything like that happened.  If he took another test at this point, he would probably show up clean anyway, so that would not prove his innocence either.

What was the reason for the test?  Was it an employment drug screen or something else?  

[RunningMom]

I doubt the Tylox or oxycodone would cause the morphine to show up on your son's UA.  Is it possible he ingested some morphine?  Perhaps he took some medicine from a friend and didn't know what it was.  I see this happen on here all the time.  I personally think it's best to take all of your own medicines, including over the counter meds.  Then you know for sure what is going into your body and your not getting into trouble.  

[taminiski]

not use what to do he has not taken anything else so why the postive morphine?

[sandee1818]

Oxycodone is not metabolised into codeine or morphine (which are the two chemicals tested for in standard opiate urine tests).
Urine Testing
Opiates are one of the "SAMHSA-5". The five drugs tested for in the standard NIDA approved drug test.

The standard tests are a one step rapid qualitative immunoassay for the detection of opiate and opiate metabolites in urine. The cutoff concentration for this test is 2000 ng/ml, as recommended by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). Prior to December 1, 1998 the cutoff level was 300 ng/ml but was raised in order to reduce the possibility of false positives from poppy seeds. The cutoff for GC-MS, which detects morphine or codeine, is 150 ng/ml. The US Military uses a cutoff level of 3000 ng/ml in order to try to avoid false positives.

Heroin breaks down into codeine and morphine. Codeine breaks down into morphine. The opiate drug tests look for codeine, morphine, and 6-acetyl-morphine. The presence of 6-acetyl-morphine is relatively conclusive of recent heroin use, but is only detectable for a few hours after use. The presence of codeine can be the result of either heroin or codeine use. The presence of morphine can be the result of the use of heroin, codeine, or morphine. Relative levels of codeine and morphine can help determine their origin.

With the new higher cutoff levels (2,000 ng/ml), Heroin use will generally only produce a positive test result for a day after single use (somewhat longer with chronic use).


I hope this helps, if you have any more questions please feel free to ask. Oxycocdone will not show up as Morphine as described above.