How long will Hydrocodone (Loritabs) stay in your system?

Question

I need to take this drug test to get this job. I took an L last night, I had muscle soreness. I don't have a prescription. This guy gave them to me.

Answer 1

All of the people above me are wrong. Hydrocodone only stay in your system for 72 hours regardless of whether they test your blood or urine. Additionally, drug tests are for illegal drugs (street drugs) unless otherwise stated. In order for a drug like this to show up in a drug screen it would have to be specifically listed on the drug screeners list or it won't be tested for at all. Think about it. There is not a general lab test for all drugs. Each drug has its own chemical compound. A lab has to know what compound to look for in order to find it. Therefore, it can only tell screen the sample for the basics. The lab will only look for what the employer asks them to. I have never heard of an employer looking for Hydrocodone (AKA Vicodine) since it is a legal prescription drug. Unless there is something you aren't telling us, you should be perfectly safe!

Answer 2

Then what you took was illicit. If you had a real pan that needed a hydrocodone, you should have gotten one prescribed for you. Taking someone else's opiate is illicit use.

With a urine test, about 5 days. How could you do that the night before? There is more to the story here. If you are hooked, seek a methadone clinic. Best of luck.

Here's an edit:
The 4th contributor is out of his league. Hydrocodone will come up as an opiate, it wll absolulty last 5-7 days. If it's a cheap test, they will only know you are (+) for opiates, and they will probably assume it's heroin. If it's a more specific panel, it will list the hydrocodone specifically. But you know what... don't take my word for it, go take the test and see for yourself.

Answer 3

Don't panic. First off, you only took one of them. It will NOT last 5 to 7 days no matter what any of these geniuses tell you.

Hydrocodone is an semi-synthetic opioid derivative. Yes, it will show positive for opiates if it is present in your system. But HC, unlike diacetylmorphine (heroin), is not a very pure opiate. Diacetylmorphine is indeed synthetic, but it is a MUCH more potent and pure opiate than hydrocodone.

For HC - on average - it takes 1 to 4 days to eliminate enough metabolites to be below the detectable level. Contrary to common belief, you CAN have a certain amount of it present in your system and still pass. This is because it takes a certain amount of metabolites (digested particles of the drug) present in the urine sample in order to be a clear-cut positive. The 1 to 4 days is dependent upon how much you took, how often, and height/weight. If the test is in two days, there is at least an 85% chance that you will pass.

There are ways to increase your chances of passing. Ample intake of fluids helps tremendously to flush out your system. Cranberry juice - a natural diuretic - is the best to drink. It makes you have to go more, and more often. The idea is to urinate as many times as you can, regardless of the amount each time. This is because each time you go, more of the metabolites in your system are flushed out. Because your body digests and breaks it down slowly, more metabolites are produced as time passes. This is why chugging a gallon of water and pissing an enormous amount only once is ineffective and causes many people to fail when they otherwise would have passed. You should be fine in two days regardless, but if you want to be safe then fluid intake/elimination is a good idea.

And as for the person talking about blood tests... This is a JOB drug screen. It will be a urinalysis, a 5-point at most. Meaning it will test for THC / COC / OPI / AMP / mAMP. (Marijuana, Cocaine, Opiates, Amphetamines, Methamphetamines). Blood tests are rarely done in the workplace regarding drug screens.

Anyways, you'll be fine. Urinate frequently until the test. Around two days would be the ideal time to have before the test.

I hope this helps to answer your question. If you have any other questions about it, feel absolutely free to message me and I will promptly respond :) My contact info is in my Y! Answers profile.

Good luck, although you probably wont need too much of it.

~EDIT: Jamie - Sorry, but you're wrong. When a drug screen tests for opiates, it tests subcategories of opiates as well. Hydrocodone is short for dihydrocodeinone. If you take hydrocodone, it will fail the subcategory for codeine. Codeine is a naturally occuring opiate and is therefore included in the break-down analysis when the sample shows positive for opiates. I'm a med. student (pharmacology) though, so I HAVE to know this stuff... Therefore, I must give you credit for knowing more than most of the folks who answered.~

Answer 4

That was pretty dumb, you knew you had a drug test and you took a pill the night before. Anyway 1 loritab might not even show up. I've had drug test taken by my pain management doctor to make sure I was taking my percocet and not selling them, they will do this on occasion, and here I was taking 6 pills l5 mg. each a day and it didn't show up in a urine test. Go figure. Next time be more careful

Answer 5

Hidrocodone is an opiate drugs group.
Opiate is detectable in the urine for several days after dose

Answer 6

In terms of a urine test.....up to 7 days; depending on what drug panel they use. Blood test...up to 30 days.