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How is this still a problem with drug tests? This has been happening for decades now.
by sublinear 4y ago
How is this still a problem with drug tests? This has been happening for decades now.
- Angostura 4y agoI presume because the seeds do contain trace amounts. ISTR New Scientist doing a fun article many decades ago about all the psychoactive items in a traditional British afternoon tea. Quite a lot of laudanum in some varieties of lettuce
- freeone3000 4y agoHeroin is made from poppy seeds. We decided that eating small amounts of the seeds is delicious, and injecting small amounts of the paste is multi-year prison sentence. The test can only test for (a protein found in) the seeds.
- efnx 4y agoHeroin isn’t made from poppy seeds, it’s made from the latex secreted by the seed pod. but yeah, other than that detail, agreed.
- bongoman37 4y ago[dead]
- thfuran 4y agoBecause it isn't really a problem with the tests but rather the interpretation of the test. They're not actually false positives — poppy seeds do contain opiates. The problem is assuming that detecting opiates at a very low level implies a drug habit and not a deli habit
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- sigstoat 4y agoit's mostly a problem with screens, simple, inexpensive tests that should only be used a precursor to running an expensive test involving mass spectrometers. usually the manufacturer of the screening test mentions this in the documentation, that nobody feels like reading. certainly not the administrators implementing/enforcing the policies.