Opioid false-positivity in urine drug screening: levomepromazine cross-reactivity

Urine drug screening false-positives are reported for several drugs, which may lead to clinical misdiagnosis and have negative consequences for the patient on personal and social grounds, if not identified. False-positives for opiates are rare, but we report a case where high-dose levomepromazine wa...

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Main Authors: Nuno Rodrigues-Silva, Ângela Venâncio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AVES 2017-01-01
Series:Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24750573.2017.1293254