Toxicology in Focus: Insights to Support Patient Care
Patients Prescribed Amphetamines: Does Methamphetamine Detection Always Suggest Illicit Methamphetamine Use?
This brief report centers on the detection of methamphetamine in patients prescribed an amphetamine to highlight another potential explanation for the unexpected methamphetamine urine drug test (UDT) result.
The report features:
- A case example that shows how this unusual scenario might present on UDT results
- An analysis of over 38,000 UDT results highlighting the rarity of the co-detection of methamphetamine and amphetamine in patients who do not have a substance use disorder (SUD) and are prescribed an amphetamine.