The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine test for the opiate codeine. Addiction ...

The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine test for the opiate codeine. Addiction and ...

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Poppy seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” which hints that it might contain opiates – powerful compounds that depress the ...

The US Defense Department issued an official warning to troops last week: If you don’t want to test positive on a drug test, you should avoid poppy seeds. A memo distributed on Friday from Gilbert ...

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A pregnancy craving for everything bagels turned what should have been a joyous time in a New Jersey mom's life into a traumatic experience, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil ...

Before Kate L. gave birth to a baby girl last September, a nurse at New Jersey's Hackensack University Medical Center collected a urine sample from the soon-to-be mother. Kate thought nothing of it, ...

An Alabama mother briefly lost custody of her newborn baby when her drug test came back positive for opiates after she ate poppy seed bread the day before giving birth, according to reports. Rebecca ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eating culinary poppy seeds won’t get you high, but they could lead to a failed drug test. Linda Caldwell/EyeEm via Getty Images ...

All service members have been advised by the Pentagon to stop eating poppy seeds or risk registering a false positive on military drug tests. Certain varieties of the small black seeds, which are ...