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A New Mother Failed a Drug Test After Eating a Poppy Seed Bagel. Here's How That Happens

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Women's Health

Can Eating Poppy Seed Bagels Really Make You Test Positive For Opioids On A Drug Test?

Elizabeth Eden of Towson Maryland tested positive for opiates after eating a poppy seed bagel before giving birth to her daughter. Though poppy seeds only contain trace amounts of morphine, they can ...
Inverse

Can Poppy Seeds Trigger a Positive Drug Test? An Addiction Specialist Has the Answer

Poppy seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” which hints that it might contain opiates – powerful compounds that depress the ...
Salon

Positive urine test? Maybe you ate poppy seeds

The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine test for the opiate codeine. Addiction ...
USA Today

Pregnant women ate poppy seed bagels – leading to positive drug tests. Now, they're calling for change.

Two women in New Jersey ate poppy seed bagels before going to the hospital to give birth. They then tested positive for drug use, according to complaints filed by the ACLU. Both infants tested ...