What Makes You Have a False Positive for Amphetamines?

Question by mudpuppie_80: What makes you have a false positive for Amphetamines?
I have been clean for over a year, I don’t even smoke cigarettes anymore so imagine my total irritation when my probation officer announces that I came up positive for amphetamine! Not Methamphetamine but Amphetamine. I wasn’t even sure what that is. I have read that cold medicines can cause this is that true? I am so angry that they could go around pointing their finger at me saying I am using if this was caused by something stupid like NyQuil! Seriously I have worked hard to get this far for this long and I am livid that I tested positive for something that I wasn’t doing. Has anyone else has heard of this!?
I don’t need replies from stupid people who think this is a joke. I WAS a junkie and that was over a year ago I AM NOT a junkie now – I am clean, sober and live a basic and boring but safe lifestyle. You know just because you may be too ignorant to get yourself clean doesn’t mean that I am -so keep it to yourself.

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Answer by XXX
Don’t take this the wrong way, but the only person you can be mad at is yourself. When you take a drug test, there is a range that you have to be within, even taking over the counter medicine (if you take it has directed), will still keep you within those ranges. The only way that you can be outside that range is if you abuse the over the counter medicine or if you are using something else. Even prescription pills, if used as prescribed will keep you in the range that you need to be in, only if you abuse them will you show a positive. Hope that helps.

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