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I take 80mg of omeprazole a day i just had a drug test for work and it came back positive for thc i do not use marihuana why did this happen ?

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Dr. Linda Callaghan answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

False positive.: Most labs use EMIT,Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique which is prone to errors and Protonix (pantoprazole) does cause a false positive reading for Marijuana. When you have a urine drug test bring your prescription bottle with you. It could also be technician error.

Answered 12/13/2016

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