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Expert: - 4/13/2010


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Would A Highly Potent Energy drink cause you to fail a drug test?
Redline energy drink to be specific??

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Michelle,

I don't believe so, but would advise you to not drink those energy drinks if you are being drug tested.  They're not really very good for you anyway!

You can look on the side of the can for the ingredients and google them to see what they are and what their properties are.  It's possible, but not probable, that one of those ingredients could cross-react on a drug screen and produce a positive.  It also depends on how sophisticated the lab is in its ability to distinguish substances of abuse from other reactants.  

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