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#163 Urine Drug Screening Nuances: 5 Pearls Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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Understanding Urine Drug Screening Nuances

This chapter explores the complexities of urine drug screening, focusing on common false positives and negatives that can arise from medications like bupropion and sertraline. It emphasizes the importance of confirmatory testing methods, such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, in clarifying ambiguous immunoassay results. The discussion also highlights the critical difference between these screenings and diagnosing substance use disorders, stressing the need for careful result interpretation.

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