Will my prescription meds show up in a pre-employment drug screening?? Need Legit answers, not speculation.?

Will my prescription meds show up in a pre-employment drug screening?? Need Legit answers, not speculation.?Now before anyone goes and thinks im a pill popper or addict here's what im trying to figure out...

I am having a job interview with a company that is extremely nosy when it comes to the medical history of its interviewees. I know this because i interviewed with them a few years ago for a position only to find out that my bmi was too high to work for them at the time and that they wont hire smokers.

The nurses who assessed my medical history had all sorts of questions concerning my health and prescription drug consumption. Basically because this company doesn't want to hire anyone who is sick or on a lot of meds because they strive to keep their operational costs (health insurance premiums included) Low.

So here's what i take...

I started to take Wellbutrin or generic Budrepion as an aid for smoking cessation a few years back. Once i started taking it i realized what other positive effects it had on my persona and my doctor advised that i stay on it. I also on occasion take xanax, not every day, but maybe 1 every few days when my anxiety gets really high.

I need to know if either of these meds will show up in a urine test or a hair follicle test. If not, then i shouldn't have to disclose my private medical information to this greedy company. Its amazing that they will pass over the best quailfied candidate for a job for the smallest health concern

BTW, I dont feel comfortable disclosing what company it is that i am interviewing for, but i will say it is a union job, for a fortune 100 company that has some strange pre-employment polcies. And the strangest thing of all is that once you work there you can have as many issues and be as morbidly overweight as you want and they will put you on leave and pay you to get better and/or loose weight.

peanut
Narcotics will show up in a drug test. It is best to disclose the nature of your illness and the medication that your doctor prescribes for you.

essentiallysolo
xanax is a bezodiazipine and as such will indeed show up in a drug test.
Welbutrin will not show up, and I should think it would be a point in your favor if you tell them you take it for smoking cessation and that you have been smoke free for how ever long you have been. That would show proactive action on your part.
You would have to not take the xanax for at least thirty days to keep it out of your urine.
Good luck.

mle4rd
They cannot bar you from employment due to real prescription drugs. This would be the same as not hiring someone who has cancer! Now, that doesn't mean that they won't "select another candidate" ,but most drug tests are only looking for illegal drugs.

buzzwump
Yes these drugs will show up in a u&a test or a hair follicle test.
I would just be upfront with them and say I take this, this, and this.
Good Luck

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