Hi everyone. Has anyone had Ambien show up on their drug screen as benzos? I googled it and it says it doesn't but it rare cases it would show up as a benzo.Thanks!
New mommy 26, BSN, RN 33 Posts Specializes in Med/Surg; Case Management; LTC. Has 20 years experience. Aug 12, 2020 Ambien is a controlled substance. I would be shocked if there was not a test they use to test for it.
allnurses Guide hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I 4 Articles; 4,776 Posts Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life). Has 21 years experience. Aug 13, 2020 In California I had to stop taking Ambien as a stipulation of my contract. They do test for it ! My PCP and I looked at all the available non-comtrolled options for sleeplessness and went with remeron. It wasn't perfect but over the five years of my contract I participated in sleep study and also learned to train my brain for sleep.Hppy
KyBeagle, ASN 144 Posts Specializes in ED RN and Case Manager. Has 27 years experience. Aug 13, 2020 When I joined the KARE program in 2014, the case manager mentioned that they had 1-2 nurses that they tested regularly for Ambien. Of course, she reminded me that ANY of us could be tested at any time for it. I was allowed to take Benadryl while in the program since I had a prescription for it. That one never caused any false positives for me. I have heard of others receiving a false positive for PCP with the initial immunoassay but further gc/ms testing correctly identified it as Benadryl.
gettingbsn2msn, MSN, RN 610 Posts Specializes in medical surgical. Has 5 years experience. Aug 14, 2020 My recruiter told me to stop ambien for 7 days. She said this even though I have a legal RX. She was sure it would show up on a test.
DistressedRN 56 Posts Aug 18, 2020 There is a specific test for Ambien and it is frequently added onto the testing panels on nurses in monitoring contracts. It is on the big no-no list for people in recovery, as it alters your LOC and is habit forming.
scerrn90 7 Posts Specializes in ER. Has 7 years experience. Sep 18, 2020 There's a specific drug test. Ambien was one of my addictions. I had been on it a decade (since the ripe ole' age of 18) and they did a librium trial to get me off. This week my rehab (I'm in intense outpatient rehab for 8 weeks on top of the 5 year board program) program sent out my urine without telling me and it was negative for ambien.
