Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Detection Periods Of Commonly Abused Drugs In Urine Drug Testing

Drug detection times indicate the period after taking a drug for which drug testing can show positive result. Drug testing helps in identifying presence of resulting metabolites in specimen. The factors that vary Drug detection times are influenced by frequency of use, type of specimen, test method, cutoff levels, metabolism, and other factors.

Amount and Frequency of Use: Single, random, small doses of drugs can be usually detected at the lower boundary. Chronic and long-term use mainly result in detection periods near or at the upper boundary.


Metabolic Rate: Individuals who have slower body metabolism are more likely to have longer drug detection periods.


Body Mass: Generally, human metabolism slows down with increase in the body mass, leading to longer drug detection periods. Depending upon type of effect on body the detection period varies.


Age: Usually, with increasing age, human metabolism slows down. This leads to longer drug detection periods.


Overall Health: In general, human metabolism slows at the time of health problems, and leads to longer drug detection periods.


Drug Tolerance: Drug Users can regularly metabolize a drug faster once resistance to the drug is created.


Urine pH: Generally, shorter drug detection period are observed in high acidic urine.


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1 comment:

Bernard Gropper said...

Would you please give citations of your sources for the statements and/or conclusions you present here?

It would help greatly to provide credibility, and to help your readers distinguish any possibly poorly supported conclusions or biased opinions from those statements they would consider to be more objective and strongly based on well done research.