Question by Victor: How long would it take for the metabolite benzoylecgonine to get out of both your urine and blood?
I am 19 years of age,I was drinking at the time and realize it wasn’t the smartest decision,and i heard alcohol makes the metabolite stay longer,it has been two weeks since the intake, I have been drinking about a bottle of water on the daily bases,I’m a male,5’8″ and weigh 175lbs
I have not been working out or trying to sweat it out,I am taking a mandatory drug test in about a day and wanted to know if I am going to be able to pass the test

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Answer by Chris
This takes about 12 days for the metabolite to get out of your system. Do NOT take this drug test because if you fail then the world could come to an end.

Answer by rosagallica2002
Benzoylecgonine is the active metabolite in cocaine. It usually clears the blood in 24 hours. It can clear in the urine from as little as 2-3 days but remain as long as 30 days, although that is more typical of chronic users than an occasional or one time user.

Alcohol does prolong the metabolism and while the length of time is very variable, a good rule of thumb is to allow twice as long for it to be metabolized. Some studies will say it’s a much shorter duration but the longest study I recall reading says it can take twice as long to clear and you always want to err on the side of caution.

The detection levels vary both with the person and with the type of the test that is done. The typical urine screen has a cut off of 300 nanograms but if they have reason to do GCMS screening they can pick up levels much more dilute than that – 150 ng/ml.( And that is ng – nanogram.)

Your overall health and your use of drugs and alcohol are the most important determining factors in terms of how quickly you metabolize drugs. Like most drugs, cocaine is metabolized through the liver and excreted through the kidneys. If this was a one time thing, and if you are not alcoholic, you were probably clear within a few days after taking it. If you are someone who drinks regularly, uses marijuana and other drugs from time to time, you could have be in for a bit of a rough ride if the screen was conducted any sooner.

If you are not a chronic, regular user of cocaine, if you don’t drink alcohol daily, if this was just one of those one time really stupid things, and if you have been completely clear for two weeks, there is essentially no chance of this being picked up in blood or urine as it has had more than twice the maximum amount of time to completely clear your system. Usually by day 5, all traces are gone, even in an occasional user. It will be detectable in hair for much longer, but hair would never be a first line screen on a routine screen and by the way, cutting your hair won’t help — it’s the hair closest to your scalp that would be affected.

What I absolutely would not do is anything to try to “detox” just to be on the safe side before the test. Despite what your friends and other on-line posters would have you believe, the screen is not just looking for drugs but it’s also looking for evidence that you are trying to cover up drug use. You can fail on that basis alone even if your urine is completely clear.

The testing routinely screens your urine for specific gravity and creatinine – the two tests that can tell definitively that you tried to dilute your urine to flush out drugs. All the stuff they tell you to do to color your urine so it looks darker is just crap. The machine that tests it doesn’t read color — it reads the amount of dissolved protein and ions and the level of creatinine, which is a measure of kidney function.

It’s a myth anyway that you can flush drugs out of your system with water, cranberry juce,or any detox drink. Drugs are metabolized in the liver and excreted by the kidneys and if your urine is overly dilute, they will simply retest with a much more sensitive method that can detect micro amounts. More people test positive because they try to dilute their urine and that raises an index of suspicion and a much more sensitive test is then performed. So someone who would have passed a basic screen with a much higher threshold will get picked up on a GCMS screen because they shot themselves in the foot trying to fake out the test.

They also test for the active ingredients that are contained in products marked to fool the testing, and that will be an automatic failure even if your urine is clear.

My advice is to thank your lucky stars you did this two weeks ago and move forward and never do it again. Cocaine is deadly stuff. And death by cocaine is rarely just dose related. It is cardiotoxic and when I was working full time, we saw cases every month of people who died the first or swcond time they used “just a little bit” of it because it stopped their heart. This can happen at any time. The basketball player Len Bias is a classic example of this — he was partying to celebrate being picked for the NBA draft and it stopped his very healthy heart cold. Please, your life is worth so much more than a weekend high with friends.

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