greyeyes

OK, I've got a drug test that I have to take in one week. I'm not saying that I'm not clean or anything but if I wasn't and the last time I had smoked was last saterday what do you think I should do?? I'm going to drink assloads of water I know, I'm eating detoxifying berries like blueberries (I got a two pound bag today) , and I'm drinking wine because it's just so damn good. These are things that I know will help me in my quest for clenliness (if there was THC in my blood that is) but do you guys know of any other tricks that will help me with this? I have heard that if a person becomes latent and just sits on his/her ass all day it is less likely to be caught in a drug test than say a person who is highly active. I'm extremely active, and I'm not going to stop that, so that is one option that I'm turning down. Other than that any suggestions?? Thanks in advance!

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Irishsean

Not exactly an answer to your question, but this is my experience:

This happened a few years ago, but I'd been working the job for a few months, when I got told I'd been picked for a random drug screen. I'd been clean for about 3 months, but that wasn't enough time to clean my system from what I'd been on. I went to my bosses office and was straight with him, showed him the NA materials I had, and had my sponsor there to talk to him. Bottom line was he accepted the fact that I wouldn't pass the test and allowed me to skip it, but required me to attend NA meetings twice a week, and checked up on me all the time, and really helped me kick the habit. 3 months later I actually took the test and was clean, and then he asked me to take a test every month just to show that I was working.

Most bosses are understanding if your honest with them...

Mephisto2

I think the fact that many jobs in the US require you to take drug tests is wierd.

For a country that feels so strongly about "personal freedom" and "privacy", I find this a strange paradox.

What happens on your own time, in your own home, should remain there. Who's business is it but yours?


Mr Mephisto

Irishsean

The problem is when it overlaps into work time, do you want someone taking care of your kids or doing your taxes while still fucked up?

KMA-628

Old, old trick. If you can, dip your finger in something like bleach and then pee down your finger.

The test will come back with nothing. However, they may make you re-test at a later date.

Also, drink a ton of coffee several hours prior to the test so that you will have to pee several times before the test. This will give your bladder a quick clean and then when you pee for the test it will be mostly water.

pan6467

Very true (about bosses) and a great story. Most cases if you are honest and showing you are working on being clean BEFORE the test the bosses will do what they can. (That's why a lot of times word of the "random" test will spread through where you work before it happens.)

However, if you wait to the day of the test, then they know the only reason you came forward is because you know you'll pop. That is almost as bad as popping.

That was the case when I was in the Navy also, if you told them before you were tested, they would send you to rehab classes and work with you. But pop and you were pretty much other than honorably discharged (OTH).

MR. MEPHISTO:

The reason why a lot of factories and manual labor jobs are piss testing is not to invade privacy, but for workers' comp and insurance purposes they have to now. They figure it will cut down usage and work accidents along with better product being made. What's really bad now, is that if you have an accident on the job, they will automatically test you (in most cases I have seen even before the Dr. will treat the person) and if you pop, you don't get workers' comp. Plus, at least in Ohio some of the places have in their handbook that they can charge you for any damage done in an accident if you pop positive (whether you were stoned on the job or not).

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typhus

I heard that if you buy a huge big gulp and pour a teaspoon or so of bleach in it and then down it, you'll pee clean. I sure it's not so good for you though. Never tried it myself.

Irishsean

Um, drinking bleach is a bad idea...

greyeyes

drinking bleach is a really bad thing
I wouldn't reccomend that to anyone

this test I have to take isn't a random drug test it's just an initial "new job drug test" I'm not too worried because I haven't smoked quite a while before the last time I did last weekend. And I have one week to gorge myself with water and antioxidants. I was just wondering if there was anything else you guys would reccomend doing along with these things.

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SCrubjay

One of the issues with THC is that it is fat soluble, which I believes means it stays detectable for a longer period of time than other items. Rather than water, I would drink a lot of cranberry juice. I know that it is used frequently for urinary tract infections due to the high acid content; it may help here.

good luck.

Boo

I suggest a job that fits your lifestyle. If you partake, then find an occupation that has no penalties for it. Businesses that require a drug test do not want people that take illegal drugs. That is just the way it is.

If you were to have an accident at a job that requires a drug test you may have to retake it at a moments notice. If you fail, you may be subject to civil action. If you hurt someone, even if you hadn't smoked in weeks, and fail the test you may end up in even deeper water.

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kurty[B]

Here's the deal... I've passed multiple drug tests with only have stopped smoking four days before them.

Drink, drink, drink. I was going through two gallons of liquid if not more a day. Not just water, ANYTHING, water, juice, beer, hard liquor, just always have a bottle of something next to you.

With two weeks, simply drinking a lot you might be able to clear out (if you have a relatively high metabolism).

I would suggest going to a head shop and buying something similar to Detoxify. Follow the directions directly. They usually involve drinking the full bottle (2-4 hours before your drug test), and then filling that bottle with water, and finishing it within 15 minutes, and then simply drinking a certain amount of water or more between then and the test. Both times I have had to use such drinks they have worked.

sailor

And Ive heard that thats fucking retarded. Bleach is poison.

Ive got a bridge to sell you for a great price, PM me for details...

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TheFu

Yeah, I find it odd that smoking a joint once a week is bad but drinking 6 beers after work with your co-workers and then driving home is acceptable. It is stupid and hopefully someday we'll wise up.

Do they still take hair samples for tests? I know Blockbuster Video did that a few years ago. I don't know of anyway to detox for that.

MSD

Drink water until your stomach hurts the night before the test. When you wake up in the middle of the night having to piss, do it again. First thing in the morning, drink a lot of water again. Both the night before, and the morning of the test, take two Vitamin B-12 pills and an antioxidant pill (make sure it doesn't have any iron in it, very important.) Half an hour before the test, drink a cup of vinegar and follow it with a lot of water. It'll taste nasty, but you want to get the job without suffering because of something you're not going to be doing anymore (if you're going to continue smoking, while in a drug-free workplace, you deserve to get caught.)

The idea is that your body will excrete small amounts of residual THC into urine. Imagine it as dripping blue food coloring into a bowl as you slowly add water, the coloring is the THC and the water is urine. If you just let the food coloring drip in and occasionally add water, it's going to be noticably blue when you empty it out. If you keep filling the bowl until it's almost overflowing, it will dilute the color. If you time it right, you can fill up the bowl with water so that only a few drops of color get in before it's taken for a sample.

The acidic vinegar will help to conceal the presence of THC in your urine, the water will dilute it, and the b-12 and antioxidant pills will keep your piss yellow instead of clear, which is a dead giveaway that you're hiding something.

Eat a high-salt diet when you're going to be drinking a lot of water. Having salt in your digestive tract will keep the water in your intestines, kidneys, and bladder instead of passing into your bloodstream by osmosis. If you get too much water in the bloodstream, you'll begin to suffer from hypoatremia (water intoxication,) a condition in which electrolytes become too diluted to regulate heart function. In a more extreme case (the usual cause of death among ecstacy users,) your blood will become so diluted that it is unable to carry oxygen to vital organs and you'll literally drwon in your own blood. This is why you can't rely on this method of detox more than once in a very long while. It just isn't good for you.

One more thing, it doesn't matter what the law says, or your personal beliefs tell you. If you're entering into an employment contract with someone, and part of the contract is that you'll stay drug-free, you have to abide by that or you'll have no right to cry about it when you fail a test and get fired. I want you to promise me that if you do this, you're going to stay clean as long as you have this job.

pan6467

Damn, Mr. you have it down to a science.

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kurty[B]

I don't think companies do this too often, but I guess you could shave your body, and say you're a athletic swimmer in your free-time.

Irishsean

Where I work I have to submit Blood, Urine, and Hair for testing on a monthly basis. Yeah, its a pain, but I work with young kids who have problems, and its part of my licensing and bonding agreements, so i don't mind. I also have to be fingerprinted every 6 months and a full background check every 3 months.

Glory's Sun

Mr has most of the bases covered..however with smoking pot..a week to detox doesn't give you much time. THC can actually stay in the system for up to 35 days. The reason has aleady been stated. It's a fat soluble. Most head shops sell things to help you get around this.. although I wouldn't swear by them. Something else you can do is to put a pube hair or two in the cup.. or a piece of fingernail. By law they can't test that specimen because it's contaminated. That buys you a little time and you're still taking a risk because if they don't see the pubes you're screwed..it's not like you can say " But I put pubes in there so this test doesn't count" I'd say stick to the cocaine.. it only takes 3 days to detox /sarcasm

thingstodo

Pretty simple.... pot is illeagal and beer isn't. Campaign for a change in our drugs laws. Hell, we spend too much money on the "war on drugs" and everyone edmits we have been, are, and will be losing that war. We could spend that 80 billion a year and the resulting taxes from the legal sale of drugs on better healthcare for druggies and straights!

By the way, a hair sample will test positive as long as the part of the hair tested was growing when you imbibed.

I like the one advice.... get a job that fits your lifestyle!

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greyeyes

I've only have 8% body fat so the fat soluble thing probably wont be too much of a problem for me. The job I'm getting is equivilent to a convience store job, and I'm working the register. I really can't tell you why they are drug testing me other than the fact that the owner is old as shit. Hell, they even do a background check I guess they are just paranoid (it's a liqour store, kinda pointless if you ask me). I've been drinking water like there is no tomorrow, eating alot of antioxidants and drinking alot of antioxidants (just so you know my dreams have never been so vivid, you should try it sometime, it's almost creepy) I think I'm in the clear, thanks for all you guys imput!

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MSD

I knew a bunch of druggies in high school.

If I sold a cup of my own piss to the person I was helping instead of giving this lecture every time, I would be fucking rich right now.


also:

If you want to add to the treatment, eat an assload of asparagus the night before so your piss is extra vile smelling when they test you. Won't help, but it gives you that gleeful feeling of schadenfreude when you see the look on the nurse's face.

StephenSa

Be careful about trying the various Detoxifying/Cleaning agents sold at head shops, health stores etc. If you do go that route try to get the latest thing out there. A guy that worked with me used an agent that you added to your urine as you peed and was supposed to "clean" it. It worked but the testing lab was aware of the product and tested for it as well. He was fired not for failing the drug test but for introducing an agent to cheat the test. He used and older product so anything fairly new is probably safe but let the buyer beware.

Tralls

There are drinks you can buy at GNC which definitely work. Worked for my friend who had one the next day. Just tell the people behind the counter your dilemma, they will help. it costs about $50.

SirSeymour

I don't think you would be feeling this way if you had my experience. I was Ramp Servicman (fancy name for baggage handler) for Eastern Airlines (if any of you remember them) for several summers and holiday breaks during college. My last year there I got pared to work a gate with the same guy 3 saturdays in a row. He came in all three days strung out on coke and alcohol. He had not clue which way was up. It just so happens that we were working a gate where the big planes parked and most of them had engines under the wings, making them very dangerous. After babysitting him for two weeks I got tired of it and turned his but in the 3rd time. He was a danger to me, the other guys working, the passengers and company property. I could not trust him to drive without hitting something nor could I trust him to give directions to the pilot while parking the plane. It was bad.

Did he do drugs at work? No, he did them on his time. Did he come to work wasted? Yes and that made his personal time the business of myself and the company.

The really sad part of this is that after he was fired for his actions, the union reps threatened me with physical violence because I had gotton one of the brothers fired. There were several rough nights in the parking lot after that. They did not care what he had done, but were rather too caught up in the us vs them mentality that labor often has when dealing with management. In the end, they got him his job back and he continued to come to work strung out.

I have supported drug testing ever since...

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