Drug testing

From my experience with Drug testing (I have a few years experience administering them and went through a pretty extensive training on the process from collection to actual testing, to how long each type of drug stays in your system) False positives are not that big of an issue. When it does happen you have to be able to account for what has gone into your system. Granted my experience had nothing to do with D.O.T. I had to take a test while I was on a prescription of percocet (which gives a true positive for opiates) and I informed the tester, he got my prescription information and there were no problems at all.

Basically the way the test are set up I could have gotten away with using illegal narcotics while on percocet as long as it was an opium based drug. But never been into drugs.

 

I have quite a bit of experience from the other side of the testing process and I understand how it works.

 

Sure I would.

 

Yep I am familiar with Prozac, I was on it for a little over a year. It was a rough one to get started on. I am confused with your entire approach on this subject though. You keep talking about prescribed medications. This post was initially started about people trying to basically figure out their best chances for passing drug testing which is ridiculous in my opinion. If a person needs to be on a prescribed medication I have no problems with it as long as it is safe for them to drive and operate machinery, if it is not then they need a different medication