What Causes False Positive Test Results For Benzodiazepines While On Cymbalta And Abilify?

Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2015

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 Answered on

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Question : yes I take Cymbalta, abilify and seroqel daily but recently my UDS was positive for benzo's. WHY??? I know that my 3 meds are not benzo's.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Ashok Kumar Choudhary (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Probably false positive

Detailed Answer:
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Urine drug screen are generally screening tests with low specificity. To get specific many times we need more elaborate analytical tests.

Since you are not using any benzodiazepines it is due to false positive reaction by seroquel. Although literature is very limited in this regard this is most possible culprit due to structural similarity between nenzos and seroquel.

You are requested to talk to concerned person and request for more analytical tsts to prove your point.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar