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The dextromethorphine in most cough syrups might cause a false positive on a drug screen, because it is molecularly similar in some respects to amphetamine. On a 5 panel instant test, you might be able to convince a nurse that cough syrup is the cause of the positive amphetamine result. It will not, however, "cover" any kind of amphetamine, legal or illegal. Also, If the test taker sends in a sample for a sophisticated lab performed mass spectronomy analysis, they will know every single drug and chemical present in your body when the test sample was taken. Legally, dextromethorphine (cough syrup main ingredient) is not categorized as an amphetamine.

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