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[tred1985]

have been clean for months I have been taking suboxon 2mg twice a day and an antidepresent every day I see my doctor once a week and drop urine every time on the initial test I have been clean but when it comes up on the computer he says that i have oxymorphone in my system, this just cant be what could cause this. I am totally honest and this is really making me feel like giving up please help figure this out

[NeuroNerd30]

Yes the false positive is possibility. If you are clean and the doc doesn't believe you, tell him that it can be verified by Mass Spectrometry (Mass Spec for short) and Gas Cromatography. Although I doubt he would actually go to all that trouble.

[scaredmommy2005]

Found this when doing some research for you.

The active narcotic in the Suboxone is Buprenorphine, which is a synthetic opiate and, on the non-certified tests that are much less reliable, both the synthetic and semi-synthetic opiates have been known to cause false positives for their relatives. And, in this case, Oxymorphone is another synthetic opiate.

This has happened to many people, because the doctor's offices are not required to use certified tests, thus they usually use a lab that was the cheapest bidder for their business. On these types of tests, false positives can occur anywhere from 4 to 50% of the time.