Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Drug, Detection Times, Symptoms

• What to Look For: Physical Symptoms Dangers: Substances: Time Detectable
Methamphetamine, Amphetamine
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
Oral Fluid: 24 to 36 hours
Disorientation, severe depression, paranoia,
possible hallucinations, increase in blood
pressure, fatigue
•Tablets of varying colors, possible chain-smoking
Long periods without rest or sleep, loss of appetite, anxiety, irritability,
rapid speech, tremors, mood elevation

Benzoylecgonine
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
Oral Fluid: 24 to 36 hours
Shallow breathing, fever, anxiety, tremors,
possible death from convulsions or
respiratory arrest
• Glassine envelopes, razors, small spoons, bitter white crystalline
powder, granular rocks
Short-lived euphoria changing to depression, irritability, nervousness,
tightness of muscles

11-Nor-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid
Urine - occasional use: 1 to 3 days; habitual/chronic use: up to 30 days
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
◊ Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
Oral Fluid: less than 24 hours
Psychological dependence, increased heart
rate, impaired short-term memory, anxiety,
lung damage, possible psychosis with
chronic use
• Plastic baggies, rolling paper, “roach” clips, odor of burnt rope
Altered perception, dilated pupils, lack of concentration and
coordination, craving for sweets, increased appetite, laughter

Codeine, Morphine
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
Oral Fluid: 24 to 36 hours

Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, Oxycodone
Oxymorphone, 6-monoacetylmorphine
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Oral Fluid: 24 to 36 hours
Lethargy, weight loss, hepatitis, slow and
shallow breathing, possible death
• Glassine envelopes, needles and syringes, caps or spoons,
tourniquets, needle marks on arms
Insensitivity to pain, euphoria, sedation, nausea, vomiting, itchiness,
watery eyes, running nose

Phencyclidine
Urine - occasional use: 1 to 5 days; habitual/chronic use: up to 30 days
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
Oral Fluid: 24 to 36 hours
Unpredictable behavior, flashbacks,
possible emotional instability and
psychosis, hallucinations
• Liquid capsules, white or brown powder on paper stamps,
sugar cubes, cigarettes, joints, injection paraphernalia
Increased pulse and heart rate, blood pressure and temperature,
possible mood and perception alteration, paranoia, panic, anxiety,
nausea, tremors, suicidal urge

3-4 methylene dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
3-4 methylene dioxyamphetamine (MDA)
Urine: 2 to 4 days
Hair: up to 90 days (depending on hair length)
Oral Fluid: 24 to 36 hours
Tachycardia, hypertension, hyperthermia,
mydriasis, diaphoresis, stimulant,
entactogenic effects, visual hallucinations
• White odorless crystalline powder, tablets in various colors and
stamped with various patterns
Euphoria, empathetic and unusually warm towards people, touch and
sight senses often heightened

Secobarbital, Butalbital, Pentobarbital, Amobarbital
Phenobarbital
Urine (all except Phenobarbitol): 1 to 3 days (short acting)
Urine (Phenobarbital): 1 to 3 weeks
Rigidity and painful muscle contraction,
emotional instability, possible overdose and
death, especially when mixed with alcohol
• Capsules of varying colors, longer periods of rest or sleep,
dizziness, cold and clammy skin
Depression, decreased alertness and muscle control, intoxication and
slurred speech, drowsiness

Common Benzodiazepines and/or specific metabolites:
Oxazepam, Nordiazepam, Temazepam (Restoril),
Flurazepam (Dalmane), Alprazolam (Xanax), Lorazepam
(Ativan), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium), Clorazepate
(Tranxene), Diazepam (Valium), Halazepam (Paxipam),
Medazepam (Nobrium),Prazepam (Centrax), Flunitrazepam,
Clonazepam (Klonopin), Midazolam (Versed)
Urine: varies from 1 to 14 days (depending on specific
Benzodiazepine)
Shallow respiration, cold and clammy skin,
dilated pupils, weak and rapid pulse, coma,
possible death
• Pills and injection paraphernalia
Slurred speech, disorientation, drunken behavior without
odor of alcohol

Methadone and metabolite
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Slow and/or shallow breathing, clammy
skin, convulsions, coma, possible death
• White crystalline powder, tablets, liquid (injectable)
Euphoria, drowsiness, respiratory depression,
constricted pupils, nausea

Norpropoxyphene
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Skin rash and other allergic reactions occur
occasionally and may be accompanied by
drug fever and mucosal lesions, stupor or
coma, convulsions, respiratory depression
•Tablets, capsules
Dizziness, drowsiness, headache, euphoria, sysphoria, asthenia

Gamma hydroxybutyrate
Urine: up to 72 hours
Bradycardia, respiratory depression,
hallucinations, amnesia
• White odorless powder, tablet or capsule
Relaxes or sedates the body and slows breathing and heart rate

Flunitrazepam metabolite (7-aminoflunitrazepam)
Urine: 1 to 3 days
Respiratory depression, hypotension,
disorientation, dizziness, visual disturbances,
anterograde amnesia
• Odorless, tasteless, white tablet
Sedative effects, including amnesia, muscle relaxation and the
slowing of psychomotor performance

Ketamine metabolite (dehydronorketamine)
Urine: 1 to 2 days
Tachycardia, hypertension, nystagmus,
respiratory depression, visual hallucinations,
cataleptic state
• Liquid or white powder
Disassociative effects similar to PCP, large doses put users into
a dreamlike, hallucinogenic state

Lysergic acid diethylamide
Urine: 8 hours
Tachycardia, hypertension, hyperthermia,
mydriasis, lacrimation, visual hallucinations,
synthesias ataxia, tremors
• Colorless, odorless tablets or capsules (microdots), liquid
solution on gelatin (window panes), liquid solution diluted
and impregnated on blotting paper (blotter)
Mood-altering effects, flashbacks, severe depression

Multiple metabolites, some parent steroids. Testosterone
to epitestosterone ratio (T/E) for detection of endogenous
steroids abuse
Urine – if drug taken orally: up to 3 weeks; if drug injected:
3 months up to 1 year
Liver dysfunction, cardiovascular disease,
hypertension, infertility
• Oil based injectable intramuscular solutions (ampoules, vials,
syringes, bottles), tablets or lozenges for oral administration,
sprays, skin lotions.
Yellow tint skin color, acne, gynecomastia, gain in weight, accumulation
of fluids, psychological disorders such as aggressiveness. In females:
marked masculinization, deeper voice, male-pattern hair growth

Methaqualone
Urine: 1 to 7 days
•Tablets Anxiety, insomnia
Slow heart rate and breathing, lowered blood pressure, sleepiness,
feelings of well-being, loss of coordination, laziness, impaired
perception, confusion, later hangover

1 comment:

  1. please feel free to add your personal knowledge and information here. Everything helps! No one WANTS to be an addict!

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