Does vicodin show up as an opiate on a blood test?

Answer 1

The answer to your question, if taken literally, is: Vicodin does show up as an opiate on a blood test since Vicodin contains hydrocodone, which is an opiate.

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If your question is closer to "Will a sample of blood test positive for an opiate if someone took Vicodin lately?" then the answer is: "It depends." It is more likely than not that a blood sample will test positive for opiates provided that the opiate concentration is sufficiently high. The "sufficiently high" part of the answer is the primary reason no one can give you a definite "Yes" or "No" without additional information. There has to be enough of the drug in a person's blood or urine for it to be detected, and the amount of drug that can be detected depends on the drug a sample is being tested for and on the method used to detect the drug.