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  • Feb 9, 2012, 06:42 AM
    aceface
    I went to the doctor last week and he told me that my urine came back without a trace
    I went to the doctors last week and he told me my urine sample came back without oxycodone in it I have been on it for 4 months is this possible
  • Feb 15, 2012, 10:06 AM
    DrBill100
    It is not only possible, it occurs frequently. The leading cause for this error is that the wrong test was ordered. Oxycodone requires a specific test and will not be detected on a standard opiate screen.

    This error has been the subject of numerous articles in the medical journals warning that Oxycodone is “Often not detected in urine” tests(1). A recent article in Pain Physician, March/Apr 2011. Also notes that certain urine tests “result in false-negatives by mising... oxycodone” (p. 130) and concludes that “a diagnosis of drug abuse should never be made based on the results of urine toxicology alone.”

    Ref:
    Journal of Family Practice, November 2010 · Vol. 59, No. 11: 628-633

    Pain Physician 2011; 14:123-143

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