Yep. Drug screen popped for heroin. Happens all the time. You'd think they would have figured out a way around it by now in the screening.
But it's only the poor that have to take drug tests. So there's no incentive to not ruin their lives.
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Fresh out of high school I got a job working in the same grocery store as my then girlfriend (now wife), i had to take a drug test to finish the hiring process. I stopped at the grocery store to grab the paperwork and as I walked past the bakery they had fresh poppy seed bagels, my absolute favorite. I grabbed one and then went the next morning for my drug test, failed for opiates.
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There is a way around it. Check again after 72h.
How long does it take for normal opiates to pass through? Because if they're the same it doesn't really indicate that it was from Poppy seeds.
If a opiate addict went clean for 72 hours for a drug test they would be in very bad shape by the time they get tested again. It would be completely obvious that they are in withdrawal. They would be very anxious, shivering, vomiting, and shitting.
Retesting after 72 hours is a pretty good indicator that someone isn't using so long as you also observe physical symptoms.
Plus failing a drug test is an automatic disqualification from future employment. Nobody is going to give you multiple chances to pass.
I stayed up all night studying for this drug test! You gotta give me a 2nd try!
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Ffs there was a Seinfeld episode on this issue. 30 years later and we have nothing better?!
Yep. Authorities have basically just refused to admit how unreliable drug tests are, no matter how many times it's proven
It's standard war on drugs tactics... They don't care how many people they hurt, gotta keep that ~slave~ prisoner population up
There was a MythBusters episode too!
My dad had a story similar to this from when he worked at a bank. Someone brought in poppyseed muffins for the office, the same morning that the office got randomly selected for drug tests. The higher-ups were really confused when the entire office tested positive for opiates.
Someone knew there was a drug test and flooded the office with Poppy so they wouldn't get caught.
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Might've been the muffin or it might've been the Fentanyl Friday team building exercise. We'll never know!
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Why are they drug testing women during childbirth? What kind of fucked up shit is that?
Started to become common during the moral panic around drugs in the 80s and 90s here in the US. I don’t know how it’s legal but this country is very backwards.
Pointing out that a person has taken an illegal drug at some point is one of the top dehumanization tools of conservatives. It is a very potent catalyst when combined with non-whiteness. It has a rich history going back at least to the nixon days.
Like half the conservatives ik be sniffing their keys in the bathroom
Well sure. The Only Moral Addiction Is My Addiction, so to speak.
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When I was a teenager, I found out that some of the packs of poppy seeds at grocery stores had seeds that were shinier and oilier than the other grey/blue/dusty ones. And they sat in clumps, not loose seeds. Turns out there was a lot of opium on those.
Good times were had, for about 2 weeks, followed by ~10 years of bad times.
Drug testing all pregnant women sounds so f*** up.
According to this LA Times article, they weren't testing everyone; they tested this woman because she skipped her prenatal visits. She did that because she lived with people who were at high risk from COVID-19. It also says she provided a urine sample voluntarily, but wasn't told it was for drug testing.
It does seem reasonable to me that if a hospital had good reason to believe a woman was using opioids while pregnant, they would get child protective services involved. It does not seem to me that missing some appointments with as good an explanation as she gave here should be grounds to perform a drug test without the patient's consent. Child protective services also shouldn't be relying on a test with such poor specificity.
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There have even been cases where they have given women pain meds before the test, then called CPS when she tested positive for those same pain meds.
Just got a box of poppy seed almond muffins from Costco. Guess my whole family, kids included, would test positive for both heroin and cyanide.
America's fixation on drugs is beyond psychotic. God forbid someone actually enjoys their shitty life a little bit. When does congress get its random drug tests? Oh, that's right, the rules don't apply there...
Pregnant people don't have the same rights as everybody else and it's not just abortion. Reactionaries need to control what they don't understand and absurdity is inevitable outcome.
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Why are they drug testing in the first place? Wtf?
Because if a pregnant woman is on something chemically addictive, the baby is too, and that’s important to know when delivering a baby.
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Anyone who listened to the 50 minute podcast can tell us whether she fought the decision and what the outcome was? Written article had no closure. Must have closure!
Absolutely horrible but they should absolutely warn people about foods that can make them false positive before any drug tests.
Or maybe we should stop drug testing people and exit the fascist fucking police state.
She had a salad, an “everything” salad. Poppy seeds are just a minor everyday ingredient and it would to just not even think of them. Even knowing. Even being warned.
Warning is not enough.
This is literally a bit in Seinfeld, except its a bagel and Elaine doesn’t get to go on her work trip. Guess our collective memory is very very very short.
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