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Poppy seeds are known to cause false positives on drug tests; in one case, a new mother's baby was taken away after she failed a drug test due to eating a poppy seed salad.
Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. However, brewing poppy seeds in hot water can produce a more concentrated effect. Poppy seed tea is sometimes even touted online as a natural, homemade pain remedy — but according to Greenthal, it's anything but.Poppy seed tea is especially risky because the quantities of opiates in a bag of unwashed poppy seeds can vary wildly from batch to batch, making safe and consistent dosing nearly impossible.
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