Can You Fail a Drug Test From Being Pregnant?
Question by Lovely Carmel: Can you fail a drug test from being pregnant?
They said I ether failed my background or my drug test but I don’t have a bad background and I don’t take drugs. So im thinking maybe im pregnant.
can i fail because of this?
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Answer by Leisure Muffin
Yes, it can give the test a false positive.
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5 Responses to Can You Fail a Drug Test From Being Pregnant?
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No ma’am!
HCG does NOT mimic any illegal drugs!
No. Hormones are not drugs.
Have a chem test done then bring the employer proof and u can get the job 🙂
You’ve done something (or some type) of drug and don’t want to own up to it. You will NOT fail a drug test from a pregnancy,the only thing that will show up with pregnancy is HCG,not illegal drugs. You wouldn’t be freaking out unless you DID do the drugs and got caught doing it. Being pregnant would have no effect on it.
Here’s a list of drugs which can produce false positives:
http://www.askdocweb.com/falsepositives.html
However, I did find this from an article linking to a Daily News article (you can not view the original article without paying for it):
“Hospitals’ initial urine- screening drug tests on pregnant women can produce a high rate of false positives – particularly for methamphetamine and opiates – because they are technically complex and interpretation of the results can be difficult, some experts say.
Tests for methamphetamine are wrong an average of 26 percent – and possibly up to 70 percent – of the time, according to studies by the University of Kansas Medical Center, U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.”
So I suppose it *could* but I read this as being if you’re very pregnant, and it sounds like you’d be so early in your pregnancy that your body chemistry hasn’t changed enough to produce a false positive.