{"id":51167,"date":"2016-11-17T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?p=51167"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:12:10","slug":"how-long-do-drugs-stay-in-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/how-long-do-drugs-stay-in-your-body\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Do Drugs Stay in Your Body?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite what some might think, not all drugs stay in your system for the same period of time. There are a number of different factors that contribute to their presence in your body. Those factors include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Are you a habitual (frequent) user?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are you male or female?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How much do you weigh?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these things need to be factored in if you are trying to get an accurate estimate of how long a certain drug stays in your system. Below, we tell you how long certain metabolites can be&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-long-various-drugs-stay-in-your-body\">detected in your system&nbsp;<\/a>if you are a somewhat frequent user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Blood<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>LSD- 3 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heroin- 12 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amphetamines- 12 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alcohol- 12 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Methamphetamines- 36 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MDMA (Molly)- 48 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cocaine- 48 Hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cannabis- 335 Hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Urine<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>LSD- 3 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amphetamines- 3 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MDMA (Molly)- 4 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heroin- 4 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cocaine- 4 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alcohol- 4 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Methamphetamines- 6 Days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cannabis- 30 Days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Hair<br><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/drug-testing\/\"><strong>Hair follicle testing<\/strong><\/a> is the most effective way to determine a subject\u2019s drug history. All of the drugs listed above besides LSD can be detected in the hair for up to 90 days. LSD typically can only be detected for around 3-5 days using a hair test. If a subject tries to avoid a hair test by shaving their head, body hair can be used and sometimes it is even more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you need a drug test to monitor your detection times, call&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/order-drug-tests\/\">National Drug Screening<\/a>&nbsp;at 866-843-4545 or click around on our website!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what some might think, not all drugs stay in your system for the same period of time. There are a number of different factors that contribute to their presence in your body. Those factors include: All of these things need to be factored in if you are trying to get an accurate estimate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":52741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"51347,51352,51345,51104,51394,51360","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}