{"id":4797,"date":"2011-09-20T08:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:16:22","slug":"can-hiv-drugs-cause-false-positive-results-for-recreational-drug-screening-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4797","title":{"rendered":"Can HIV meds make me fail a recreational drug screening test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, most HIV meds will not affect these drug tests.<\/p>\n<p>Efavirenz may be an exception, because when it was first approved there were reports that it might cause testing for marijuana to be false positive.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that the tests used for recreational drugs had become more refined since then, but theoretically, this might still be a worry. A false positive test for marijuana can be checked using a more specific test.<\/p>\n<p>The SPC leaflet (Specific Product Characteristics) for efavirenz documents this as a problem with only one make of test:\u00a0<em>&#8220;False positive test results have only been observed with the CEDIA DAU Multi-Level THC assay, which is used for screening, and have not been observed with other cannabinoid assays tested including tests used for confirmation of positive results.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, a <a href=\"http:\/\/cid.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/48\/12\/1787.full\">more recent study<\/a> reported that people taking efavirenz had a high rate of false-positive tests for\u00a0benzodiazepines (including commonly used drugs like diazepam (Valium) and lorazepam (Ativan). The same study found no false positive results for marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to know what HIV meds can produce a false positive on a drug screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25791,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/25791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}