Drugs of Abuse Testing

Detection Times: Opioids and Morphine Derivatives

September 2009

If you look at the opioids and the morphine derivatives: morphine; the heroin metabolite 6-acetyl-morphine (being less than 24 hours); but the morphine, codeine, oxycodone are about 1 to 3 days. And that also applies to a lot of the other opiates including hydrocodone and hydromorphone. Methadone and its metabolite EDDP, we can see from 1 day to 1 week. Now that sounds like a very long window of time, but it’s basically because the metabolic half-life of that drug is extremely variable from individual to individual, so it’s very difficult to predict.

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