If you've ever taken a drug test, you’ve probably heard the warnings about eating a poppy seed bagel beforehand. Or maybe you ...

While your average poppy seeds likely have no intoxicating effects, it is technically possible to get high from poppy seeds — but it's definitely not safe.

No consensus exists on the best approach to diagnosis. The poppy-seed test—which involves ingestion of poppy seeds and visual inspection of urine for the presence of the seeds during 48 h—is a ...

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. Poppy seeds come from ...

In April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin ... from the poppy seed capsules ...