Parolee’s Drug Test Skewed by Poppyseeds
<i> Reuters</i>
JUPITER, Fla. —
A Florida parolee almost found himself back in jail after a drug test failed to distinguish between heroin and the poppyseeds on his breakfast bagel.
As a result, any released prisoner who tests positive for morphine will be barred from eating poppyseed bagels as a condition of parole, a Florida Department of Correction official said Tuesday.
John Ambre, director of Toxicology and Drug Abuse at the American Medical Assn., confirmed that poppyseeds--which contain a tiny bit of morphine--can affect a drug test.
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