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It is very critical to understand ‘how long do drugs stay in your system’ when it comes to drug tests. If an individual is s tested too early or too late after the drug intake, the drugs may not be visible in the drug tests conducted. The drug detection timeframe is dependent on a number of factors like the rate of metabolism, the hydration levels, fluid balance and the general health conditions of the individual. Frequency and the amount of drug consumes is yet another important factor that has to be considered when it comes to understanding how long do drugs stay in your system.

The major factors on which the drug visibility is seen can be summed up as follows

· Metabolic Rate: Higher the metabolic rate of an individual, the shorter is the drug detection timeframe for that individual.
· Age: As you age, the metabolic rate tends to slow down. This in turn makes you prone to longer drug detection time periods.
· Amount and Frequency of the drug intake: Intake of large amounts of drug will lead to higher concentration of drug in the body. As a result, it will take more time for it to get metabolized and excreted out of your system. Taking drugs infrequently has possibilities of the drug getting visible around the lower thresholds. Very frequent drug consumption will lead to the detection of the drug around the high threshold levels.
· Body Mass: Higher body mass can be associated with longer drug visibility time periods. Drugs like THC and PCP tends to get accumulated in the fatty tissues of the body. As such, in case of human beings who have no physical activity or crippled and in people who have higher fat content, the drug detection window is likely to be very lengthy.
· Tolerance to the Drug: Once the tolerance to a particular drug is established in an individual, the metabolic rate of that particular drug in that individual is unimaginably shortened.
· Health Conditions: In case of people with degenerating health, the metabolic rate is slow and hence the drug detection time is longer.
· Ph of Urine: The more acidic the urine is, the shorten the drug detection period is.

The drug detection time for alcohol is one full day while that of amphetamines is 1-4 days. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines can be detected in the human body for 1-3 days since the consumption of the drug.

Cocaine has been proved to remain in the body for around 1-5 days while LSD tends to remain in the body for 1-2 days. THC when used casually gets detected within a week since its intake. Ecstasy or MMDA, Methadone and methamphetamines are drugs that can be detected within a span of 4 days. Traces of opiates are detectable for a period of 5 days since intake. While PCP stays in the body for almost a week.

Of the drugs, PCP and THC tend to remain in the body for days, months or weeks and this entirely depends on factors like health conditions, age, metabolism and physical characteristics of the individual.

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18 Responses to “How Long Do Drugs Stay In Your System?”

  1. vedanta on November 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    i had consumed abt 2.5 pills of xtc about 10 days bak and and also 2 small lines of cocaine one day after hence 9 days back. I had to give a drug test towday. my question semily is that will these drugs show up in a blood test if i am not at alll a frequent user

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    mary Reply:

    I took half a pill of extc I am 37 yrs old n weigh about 130 lbs how long will it remain in my system?

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  2. dsasser on November 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    @vedanta
    Even if you are an infrequent user, your metabolic rate, height and weight will play a role in drug detection. And the time gap that you had is only 9 days. So I would say that the chances for you to pass the test is only 40/60

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  3. JosephS on January 14th, 2009 at 2:42 am

    I got drug tested 9 days and 15 days after i last took Xtc and both tests came up positive for opiates. i thought they didnt stay in your system that long. Is zanx an opiate?

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  4. Candice on September 8th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    How long do clonazepam stay in your system or can be detected in a urinalysis after being on them for four years twice daily at a dose of 2.0 miligrams?

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  5. puppy on September 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    hi,

    i took amphetamine, its shabu its what they call in asia. i took it 4 days ago because i was force by some friends. i sniff 3 times. it was my first time, then after taking it makes me dizzy. how long will it be gone in my system? some websites says that 1-5 days.

    puppy

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  6. ivy on September 26th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    i took amphetamine also last monday,sept. 21, 2009. . .then i’ve taken my drug test, it’s a urine test, yesterday. . .it was my first time to use it. . i sniffed 3 times. . .how long does it will be gone in my system? is it possible for me to pass the urine test? please reply ASAP. ivy

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  7. clang on September 26th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    i took monday then have taken my urine test, friday. . .will i pass?

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  8. clang on September 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    i took amphetamine monday then take my urine test friday. . .will i pass? it’s my first time to take

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  9. clang on September 26th, 2009 at 10:41 am

    it’s 1 gram or less i think for the 3 of us of my friends. . .will i pass?

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  10. johnathan on September 30th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    I took 3 .5mg og clonazepam for the first time yesterday (9/29/09). I have a drug test on the 7th of october. Will the test come back negative? And if I sweat and eat less to speeed my metabolism up, will that help?

    Please answer
    *paranoid kid*

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    ts Reply:

    no it wont be in your system after 2 days .i take this so im sure

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  11. penny on October 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    i smoket weed and got dung and i got a pist test on monday. so im going back to jail

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  12. Tabetha on October 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am

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    Thanks for saying
    Tabetha

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  13. candy on November 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    if you smoke pot a lil bit one weekend and a lil bit the next the first of month would you be clean by the first of next month?

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  14. Tina Cearley on November 4th, 2009 at 12:45 am

    I took one .5 mg xanax 4 or 5 days ago I had to take a pre employment urine test sent to a lab will it show up i am no a chronic user

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  15. tdubya on November 14th, 2009 at 5:19 am

    how long does carisoprodol stay in the system?

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  16. goshy on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    i smoked a blunt of dust(pcp) 2 days ago, and one about 5 days before that. how long will it take to get out of my system.

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