Suboxone And Urine Test (Page 2) (Top voted first)

I know Suboxone does not show up in a standard test. But the job I am applying for may do an extended test. I have a prescription from my Doc and I am on 16mg a day which by the way is wonderful. But I was wondering if anyone knows how long till my urine's clean?

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my husband worked a temp job and after 5 weeks the company wanted to hire him-yesterday he took a 10 panel drug test and showed positive for soboxin- which he has a prescription for and was hired and fired in one day-ITS SAD THAT WHEN SOMEONE LEGITIMATLY GETS OFF ME PILLS AND TRIES TO DO BETTER BY GETTING OFF THE DRUGS ARE STILL TREATED AS ADDICTS!!!!!! HE WAS TOLD THAT SOBOXIN SHOWED UP AS AM OPIATE TO THOSE SAYING IT ISN'T AND DOESN'T SHOW UP!!!!!!! THERE SHOULD BE A LAW OR SOMETHING TO PROTECT THOSE WHO ARE 100% TRYING TO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE AND JUST WANT TO WORK!!!!!!

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According to Norchem labs, a privately contracted lab that performs drug tests for employers etc., suboxone has a half life of 24 hours and it's detection time for screening tests is 1-7 days.

You can take that for what it's worth, or if you are interested I will walk you through the math:

They say the cutoff detection level is 5ng/mL. Let's say you take an 8mg strip.

8mg in 5L blood (average male) is 8000000ng/5000mL or 1600ng/mL. So when you first take that strip lets assume for arguments sake the most extreme scenario, that is all of it gets into your blood i.e. 100% bioavailability (you can do this by IVing the strip, sublingually bioavailability is around 60%). Over each half life the concentration will halve and look like:
1600
800
400
200
100
50
25
12.50
6.25
3.125

That is approximately 8-9 half lives to get below the detection level of 5ng/mL. And if each half life is 24 hours that's 8-9 days. If you want to assume each half life is 48 hours then it would be 16-18 days. And if 72 hours then 24-27 days.

So for suboxone to get out of your urine, depending which half life you use, could take anywhere from 8-27 days.

Hope that helped. Questions? {edited for privacy}

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I just started on the Suboxone program. Man, it saved my life. Long story short, I've been clean for 6 months. Flew down to Encino, California to a detox center, came back home, and now I'm on subs. Wish I got on them the first go around, anyway. So I'm totally clean. My doctor gives me a urine test every three weeks. And he's said I've failed every time. The thing is I don't get to see them. So they take the U/A to the back, then the doctor comes in about 5-10 min later with the results. This go around said I had methamphetamine, mdma, heroin, cocaine, oxy, benzos, opiates, s*** mostly everything under the sun. And every test I've taken has had methamphetamine in it. I don't understand. I haven't done nothing for 110 days. The only substance I've taken is the Suboxone. So this time he only gave me 20 strips and said I want you back for another urine test in 12 days. The thing that gets me is they don't let me watch the test, they do it in a separate room. Wondering if these doctors are crooks and do some shady stuff like this to make extra money? There is a guy that's always in there getting his meds the same days as me and he said he's never passed a test at this doctor's office either, and he's been going there for 3 years. So my question is, has anybody ran into crooked doctors in this Suboxone program?

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Re: pippy (# 9)

No honey, that won't work. The reason is that urine tests don't test for the drug itself, they test for the metabolites that your body turns the drug into. Also, that was NOT a stupid question. You needed information that you didn't have and reached out to find someone who did. That's how we learn. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers, such as the stupid answer that a**hole gave.

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Re: KayLeen (# 68)

That's not correct. Different meds take different lengths of time. A hydro is around 3 days, a benzo is anywhere from 7 to 30 days depending on how many you took... And suboxone has a crazy half life, it can take quite a while depending on how much and how often you take it. You only excrete HALF the mg in your system approximately each day. If you took 24mg on Mon- It would be 12 mg Tues, 6mg Wed, 3mg Thurs, 1.5 mg Friday, .75 mg Saturday, about .37 Sunday... So Monday, 7 days later it would be gone.

Likewise, if you only took 8 mg Monday- then it would be 4 mg Tuesday, 2 mg Wednesday, 1 mg Thursday, .50 mg Friday, .25 mg Saturday and pretty much clear in Sunday. ONLY 1 day less in clearing your system. My wife and I both work with recovery environments.

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Re: Drui78 (# 73)

At the same time, we all have different body sizes and different metabolisms. It may be longer for a 6'3 male weighing 260 lbs, and much shorter for a 5 ft 110 llb female that works out 3 or 4 times a week.

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Re: Chris (# 56)

Chris, even though this was last year and won't help you now I'm sure- but it may help someone else so I'm going to reply. If you were showing raw suboxone in your UA (that means there was either part of a tablet or film in your sample- yes they can tell).. And you TRULY didn't place it there to make sure you tested positive, then there's a couple ways it could have happened. It sounds like you took your dose somewhere close to the time you took your test and have accidentally tainted your own sample. Bupe is very fragile- both tablets and films, it's meant to dissolve rapidly. That means it sticks to your fingers. Depending on which you're prescribed, varying amounts of residue can be left behind. Always make sure your hands are dry when you touch your film or tablet. Don't hold it very long. Wash your hands thoroughly after you take it and again before you provide a urine sample. But at the same time, if you're taking it like you're supposed to, then you have the metabolite in your UA sample as well. That's what it breaks down into when you take any med daily. It's like a marker in your system proving you take something more often than just occasionally or just to pass the test. Even if there were fragments in your UA, the metabolite should be there as well. Either they're using cheap tests, or they have unknowledgeable staff.

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Re: bren (# 17)

Unfortunately that's not true bren#17 Suboxone will show up as an Opioid because-That's What it IS.....

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Why doesn't suboxone show up on my urine drug test when I'm taking it every day? My test came back as nothing in my system.

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if you have a legit prescription for the stuff, it doesn't matter if you test positive for it. you are legally allowed to be taking that substance. if you have a prescription for morphine you can't get fired for testing positive for opiates.

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I just have to say that, that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard pippy!!

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DO NOT LISTEN TO it is like any other pill and will be clean in a few days. The halflife of suboxone is around 40 hours and oxycodone is only at 4.5 hours. Also it stores in your fat like THC. I wish I could tell you an approximate time that you would pee clean but I am trying to find that out myself. Everyone is different but you can get an idea if you do the math. You would have to know what the tests max nano count would be though and be real good in math which I am not. Even then it would only put you in the ballpark. You would have to know your body fat percent and how many calories you burn, how long and how much you have taken it and all kinds of stuff that I don't understand. The 7 panel tests will not detect it, but most places are starting to use the 12 panel test which WILL test for suboxone. My guess is that it would take about a month to get out. My advice would be to go pay alot of money to a place like labcorp and have your own urine test done. If positive then get a legal scrip if you don't already have one. I showed up positive for Oxy and though I had a scrip and the positive turned into a negative, I was still reported to my surpervisor and had to go to the doctor that my workplace has and prove I was fit for duty.

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I have to take subuxone test at the clinic tommorrow and i am sopuse to give a percentage i have to take 3subuxone a day and i have been takin 1 how can I do to pass the test

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So they check your levels? I would say that it's obviously going to come out low. But how do they test, urine, swab, hair blood?? The first three methods aren't accurate when testing levels. Message back.

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hey this is ADDY Im the one with that Q@A!!!! I have clean urine!!! but it needs suboxone ! I NEED TO KNOW 4 SURE that putting some film in the hot urine it will disolveand my test will come up clean been going to dr since DEC 20012. HES GOING TO DISCHARGE ME IF I DO NOT PASS

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hey subslingr IT TRUELY DOES WRK? I have to tke test tues. ITS SUNDAY!!!!! Im gonna be discharged if it dnt

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Stupidity deserves failure.

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Si Google traducir obras correcto que usted quiere saber si las pruebas de los servicios sociales para suboxone. En cuanto a algunos condados no no lo hacen, pero algunos están poniendo de moda y lo incluyen en su panel. Pero la mayoría tiene la petición especial que por lo que debería estar bien. ¿Dónde están ubicados?

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Bullcrap. I actually get clean urine and get about 10 of the empty wrappers and basically wash the wrappers out with the urine and test positive for it (suboxone) every time. But you have to do it at home and take it with you because it takes about 10 min to do it. But it works evertime for me.

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What kind of job and position would he have gotten?

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