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Would azithromycin give a false positive for cocaine on a urine drug test?

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Dr. Mitchell Cohen answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Not a problem: Generally members of the penicillin family of antibiotics and especially Amoxicillin may falsely produce a urine drug test positive for cocaine. Azithromycin is in a different antibiotic structural class and is not known to produce this false positive result.

Answered 2/18/2020

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Cocaine: False positives have been reported with antibiotics especially the penicillin group.

Answered 12/19/2018

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