Blood Drug Testing

I am taking a blood pressure medication called cardizem la...will it show up as an unknown in a drug test?

When I go to take my blood/urine drug test, I do not want to inform them that I am taking the cardizem la. If I take the drug test with the cardizem in my system, will it alert them that something is in my system?

Public Comments

1. before you take the drug test you have to tell them what meds you are taking so that they will no that your doctor put you on it
2. I don't believe so because that is not the kind of drugs they are screening for.
3. I dont know whether it would show up or not, but I fail to understand why should you hide this fact. There is no law against taking cardio vascular drugs,in any part of the world.Then what is the reason you want to hide the fact. In my opinion,rather you should volunteer and declare yourself.
4. I think if you are taking a pre-employment test, the test will be specific to street drugs and legal controlled substances, like narcotics and simulants, etc. Cardizem is a calcium channel blocker (I take it, too), which is not in any of these classes of drugs, so you should be all right. In fact, if this is a pre-employment drug test, I think it's illegal for you to be tested except for street drugs and legal controlled substances. I am going on memory here, so don't proceed solely on my answer, but I think with all the new regulations on privacy protection about health information (HIPAA) that the employer would be on some dangerous turf legally to peer into all of the non-psychotrophic meds that their workers are taking via a urine test. I also think that the way the labs do these tests they have to specifically test for things to find them. Doubtful your employer would want to pay extra for a test that would find this med, which is a really common blood pressure med. Hope that helps. PS to Mr. Know_ there is a lot of job discrimination in hiring for pre-existing health conditions, and this drug is used for high bp, heart disease, etc. This person may have a condition he's managing that he doesn't want his employer to know, and which they do not have a right to know if it doesn't affect his qualifications for the job, otherwise. But they could discriminate, if they think it will raise their health insurance premiums. BIG ISSUE in busienss today. Read up on that, if you're in the job market, yourself!