Misusing Vitamin to Foil Drug Test May Be Toxic; Plus, It Doesn't Work, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Say

Taking excessive doses of a common vitamin in an attempt to defeat drug screening tests may send the user to the hospital—or worse. Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania reported on two adults and two adolescents who suffered toxic side effects from taking large amounts of niacin, also known as vitamin B3, in mistaken attempts to foil urine drug tests.

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