can one be tested (urine and/or blood) and these substances will no longer be tracable?
2007-05-31 22:51:39 · 7 answers · asked by mavmar72 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Take whatever drug you're taking and find out the half-life for it. Say for example Drug X has a half life of 24 hours. That means after 24 hours, half of the drug's metabolites will be in your system. Now, wait another 24 hours and half of that will be gone (leaving you with 25% of the drug's metabolites after two days). Keep on waiting for the half life cycles to reach zero, and then the drug will be completely gone from your system. Now, it is possible that you could have a negative test before all of the metabolite is removed from your system--it depends on how good the test is.
As others have mentioned, however, no one really tests for anti depressants, so why is this an issue?
2007-05-31 23:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by gomakemeasandwich 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i ended by surprise and not something befell. i do no longer advise this although. sufferers would desire to continually be steadily weened off anti-tension and anti-depressants. each and anybody responds in a distinctive way, nevertheless. feels like the meds have been conceivable protecting your pals problems. She probable desires counseling alongside w/meds to acquire new coping skills. those are actually not regular warning signs from discontinuing anti-depressants. i could seek for warning signs of melancholy relapsing i.e. desirous to be on my own, hopelessness, weight benefit or loss, suicide, etc.
2016-10-09 06:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should you worry they are a legal drug if an employer takes of fence you could sue them for discrimination , Depression is a very common illness 1-4 and NOTHING to be ashamed about
2007-05-31 22:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Standard drug screens (blood or urine) do not test for anti-depressant drugs. They test for opiates, marijuana, alcohol, amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine, benzodiazepines (valium, ambien, xanax, klonopin, etc), methadone, oxycontin, etc etc. I've seen thousands of tox screens and never seen antidepressants listed. Unless you take lithium, I've never even seen labs tests available to test antidepressant blood levels.
2007-05-31 23:08:56 · answer #4 · answered by Pat D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
those drugs get in blood, and manipulate the brain chemicals
as soon as you don't feel the effects, that probably means the drugs are gone, just wait for a few days to make sure
2007-05-31 23:03:24 · answer #5 · answered by Sexy dude 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, assuming you're on a drug that takes several weeks to begin/stop working, I'd assume it'd take just as long to be out of your system as it does to stop working.
2007-05-31 22:58:29 · answer #6 · answered by Keits 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they usually pass rather quickly, but since these are not illegal drugs, they are not usually looked for during drug testing
2007-05-31 23:07:22 · answer #7 · answered by Daniel F 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋