Drug and Alcohol Testing Q&A - 2008

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Re: Medication sound-alikes

From: Robert Swotinsky MD
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Date: 07 May 2008
Time: 05:39:59 -0700
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Comments

I refer to a case I posted in which a donor confused Marinol with mineral oil. I realize that case isn't exactly responsive to g woodall's question about MROs dealing w/sound-alike medications. My point is, both donors and doctors sometimes get confused about similar-sounding medicines.  MROs commonly hear donors hopefully explain away their cocaine positive results as due to codeine prescriptions, perhaps figuring that codeine and cocaine must be close enough.