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Tabloid Hell: Britney tests positive for amphetamine drug

Britney Spears                                                                                                     Pic: PA Photos

Britney Spears Pic: PA Photos

Laywers will return to court on Wednesday

Britney Spears recently failed drugs test showed an amphetamine in the results, it’s being reported.

According to TMZ.com, Spears camp may blame the positive result on her Albuterol inhaler, which she apparently uses to treat asthma. Reports yesterday suggested that Provigil was to blame, a drug used to treat narcolepsy

However, neither drugs are considered amphetamines, the class of drug that showed up on her failed test.

Mark Vincent Kaplan, lawyer for Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline is expected in court tomorrow.

Federline currently has custody of the pair’s two young children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

--By our New York staff.
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