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From: Shawn Nichols
Date: 11 Nov 2005
Time: 18:42:00 -0800
Remote Name: 172.142.55.210
I would first like to thank you for your web site. The information I gathered here may have gotten me out of an unjust situation that threatened my freedom. I am on parole in a large city. Part of parole consists of being subject to random drug screens. After a visit to the dentist in August 2005 and with prescriptions for tetracycline and hydrocodone, I was subject to a random urinalysis. I had my prescription papers in my wallet and thought there would be no problem as I had done nothing wrong.
Three weeks later I was out of the blue hauled into a review board, read the riot act, and my freedom threatened. The lab sent back a positive for hydrocodone and hydromorphone and I was being accused of doing Dilaudid. At that time I had no idea that the body metabolized hydromorphone from hydrocodone. I immediately went to my computer when I got home, did a search and found this web site. I printed out several of the posts and took them to my parole officer, to no avail. I then went to my Dr. and told him the story. He appears to have a lot of knowledge about drug screens because he knew right away what I was talking about and wrote me a note stating the same things I learned on your web site.
The following questions have to do with education in the hopes that I can keep this from happening to someone else in this particular system:
 | Do the MROs always send the results back as they are or is my local parole board supposed to be educated as to the body's metabolism? |
| Is there a standard that MROs follow concerning reporting results, with full knowledge that hydrocodone metabolizes to hydromorphone? |
Thanks for any reply and thanks for pointing me in the right direction with your web site.
Shawn Nichols