My question involves public health law in the State of: Ohio
Hello,
I'm in a situation and I don't know what to do about it.
I've been sick and have been treated by a reputable hospital institution for almost four years. I was prescribed medications through one of their pain management clinics (one non-narcotic, one narcotic, and Tramadol, which wasn't a schedule whatever drug, but now is).
I signed an opiod contract with them, and was subject to random drug screenings for being prescribed the narcotic. A drug test came back positive for morphine, which I had never taken. The doctor accused me of being a drug addict. He is refusing to prescribe my pain medication based on this.
Further research at home indicated that poppy seeds could cause the positive drug test result (which was 38 ng/ml, extremely low). This made sense to me, because we had recently been eating a lot of bagels with poppy seeds listed before yeast as an ingredient. The doctor said that I would have had to eat 5 lbs of seeds to test positive. He refused to do another drug screening. I called the hospital lab, and they indicated that poppy seeds could cause a false positive result.
My husband thinks that I need a lawyer. I am almost out of my medication, and I don't know what to do. I am mortified by this situation.
Regards,
Heather
Hello,
I'm in a situation and I don't know what to do about it.
I've been sick and have been treated by a reputable hospital institution for almost four years. I was prescribed medications through one of their pain management clinics (one non-narcotic, one narcotic, and Tramadol, which wasn't a schedule whatever drug, but now is).
I signed an opiod contract with them, and was subject to random drug screenings for being prescribed the narcotic. A drug test came back positive for morphine, which I had never taken. The doctor accused me of being a drug addict. He is refusing to prescribe my pain medication based on this.
Further research at home indicated that poppy seeds could cause the positive drug test result (which was 38 ng/ml, extremely low). This made sense to me, because we had recently been eating a lot of bagels with poppy seeds listed before yeast as an ingredient. The doctor said that I would have had to eat 5 lbs of seeds to test positive. He refused to do another drug screening. I called the hospital lab, and they indicated that poppy seeds could cause a false positive result.
My husband thinks that I need a lawyer. I am almost out of my medication, and I don't know what to do. I am mortified by this situation.
Regards,
Heather
Medical Records: Unfounded Accusation from Doctor
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