Help! Drug Screen for My Prescribed meds!

t&g0913 · Aug 24, 2015

Yes, the will call you and no, your employee will not know what prescriptions you take. Once the medical review officer calls you and verifies your prescription, it will be reported as a "pass" to your employer.

skittlebear · Aug 24, 2015

Thank you so much! I haven't had much experience wiith drug tests. This is a breath of fresh air though.

Jules A, MSN · Aug 24, 2015

If someone giving you both Xanax and Klonopin I'd suggest seeking a second opinion.

skittlebear · Aug 25, 2015

Jules A... I know this! It was my primary care doctor and I am tapering off on my own with my doctors knowledge. I have stopped seeing that primary care doctor and am now seeing a psychiatrist. My anxiety is debilitating.

Jules A, MSN · Aug 25, 2015

Jules A... I know this! It was my primary care doctor and I am tapering off on my own with my doctors knowledge. I have stopped seeing that primary care doctor and am now seeing a psychiatrist. My anxiety is debilitating.

Hang in there and hopefully your psychiatrist can help you with a comfortable taper and long term solution.

There are safe, responsible, conservative benzodiazepine regimens for people with no addictions history and true anxiety in conjunction with therapy. Xanax can be a horrible med to taper down and it makes me furious that PCPs continue to step out of their lane and prescribe stupid, harmful psych medication regimens. I have elderly people who have been on combinations like this for years and are getting delirious, falling, withdrawal seizures because they are so delirious they then forget to take the medications it is disgraceful.

Whispera, MSN, RN · Aug 25, 2015

I second what Jules wrote. I believe general practitioners think taking xanax is like popping a TicTac. I've had oodles of patients come to me, who have been on it for years and have been taking it many times a day, at very high doses each time. Sometimes I (internally) shake my head and say to myself, "how is this dose/schedule even possible?" and "how do they make it through the night?"

The patients become truly frantic they might run out of their medication. When they do run out, it's terrible for them. Little old ladies who have been taking it for years...I want to go slap someone!

The info. you were given, OP, about the testing facility contacting you, as needed, is what will happen. No worries...

GreatDaneAPRN · Aug 25, 2015

Prior to being a RN, I was a lab tech. I have years of experience collecting drug screens and performing drug screens. Generally, the "collector" only collects the specimen. Most specimens are sent to a reference laboratory. There the specimen is tested and can actually determine what specific

medication(s) have been taken. Then the medical review officer (MRO) will call you to see if you have a valid prescription. If so, all is well. The test will be reported as negative or "verified by prescription".

NurseQT · Sep 17, 2015

I had to do a drug screen a few years ago after 30 lortabs went missing. I don't take lortab but I do take adderall. I was up front with my DON and my NHA before I even went over to the clinic to pee in a cup. Low and behold my 10 panel came back positive and I was placed on paid leave until the sample could any analyzed. Took about 3 days before I got a call from the medical review doc. He asked me for my RX #, the pharmacy where it's filled, my last refill date, and my prescribing doctor's name. I got a call from my DON later that day giving me the all clear to return to work. At first I was ticked that I was suspended after I disclosed the fact that I was taking adderall and that my 10 panel was positive for amphetamines and not opioids, but I realized that my employer didn't know WHAT I'd tested positive for only that I had tested positive.