Will anti-biotics show up in my drug test?

Question

ok, so i just had an interview with walgreens, and they want me to go and get a drug test. i'm going tomorrow, but i have just a little concern. i was reading the handout that walgreens gave me, and they said the test tests for cocaine, weed, perscript. pills, and other stuff. it said any perscript. pills must be in your name for it to be okay. well, i've been sick for a couple days, and my mom gave me a couple of my grandpa's old antibiotics that he was done with (bad idea, i know). well, i stopped taking them on sunday night. i only took like 2 or 3 pills i think. i will be taking my test on wednesday afternoon. do you think the pills will show up in the test, and if they do, what will happen? please answer, i give best answers. thanks.

Answer 1

Antibiotics will not show up and even if it did... they can not legally use it against you if you were prescribed them. So if you were prescribed a narcotic and it shows in the pee test... oh well... you were prescribed it. Just make sure you list on the meds you are on.

Answer 2

My advice would be to take the drug test, and if you fail, then you've learned a huge lesson. I don't know how they could possibly test for every prescription medication in the world, so my guess is that it won't show, but it's just a guess.

I'm curious as to why you "know" that taking your grandpa's old antibiotics was a bad idea.

Is it because you know that antibiotics are prescribed at a certain strength, to be taken on a certain schedule, over a certain time period so that they actually kill the bacteria, and that taking too few for too short of a time, etc., will only cause the bacteria to mutate, and this kind of self-medicating is creating infections that antibiotics no longer CAN kill? That would make sense, if that's your reason. (Also, not only you did this, but your grandpa, too?)

Or is your reason because the medication might have been past its effectiveness date, and the risks of taking expired antibiotics are probably more dangerous to you than the illness you had?

Or maybe because you don't really know what you had, and the antibiotic you took may not have even been something that works on what you had?

Here's what I know: It took thousands of years to develop these "miracle drugs" to kill deadly bacertia, and barely 50 years of self-medicating and sharing meds to destroy their effectiveness.

I think people who "share" their antibiotics are contributing to a serious offense against humanity. Next time your mom offers to dispense prescription meds to you without a license, my advice is to tell her "no thanks".

Answer 3

Nope, 12 panal drug screens wont pick that stuff up. Even some of the schedual 3,2 &1 narcotic pain medications need special tests to find out. IF thats the only thing you took you'll be in the clear. Most of these flush out of your system within a few days anyway. Take oxycontin for example. If you happened to take lets say 80mgs in a day and you dont take them on a regualr basis, it will get pissed out of your body in about 2-3 days tops. Best advise however is to never take any perscription that is not in your name period. That particular medication could have an addative that is specially made just for the person. This means that an antibiotic could indeed read from the bottle as immoxocylan but have another addative.