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Opiates
Opiates are a group of drugs derived from the poppy plant. Opiates include legal drugs such as morphine and codeine as well as illegal drugs such as heroin.
891 Questions
NO... this is not true! The furthest back a drug test can go is about 6 moths if they use a sample of your hair. Urine drug test can only go back as far as a month.
Can Morphine be injected in people's legs or just arms?
yes. Morphine can be injected anywhere you can find a vein. Personally, I think the arms are always the easiest to hit, but the scars can be unsightly and also many people have used up their arms and can hit nowhere else. Do what you gotta do.
Is duragesic covered by Medicaid?
I'm not sure but Johnson & Johnson just bought out Janssen a few years back and they have a great Patient Assistance program, due to my low income I don't pay for my Fentanyl Patches.
Give Johnson & Johnson a call and see if they can help you if you can't afford them.
Can heart flutter be a side effect of pain medication such as morphine?
Yes, heart flutter is actually a very main side effect of pain medication. I had a root canal recently and this happened to me. It gets slower and more spaced out as the medicine wears down. You shouldn't have anything to worry about unless it is persistent when you are not on the medication or you have taken too many pills. Hope I was of some help!
How long does percocets stay in your system?
About 3 days (72 hours) if you've only taken one or two doses on the same day. But it largely depends on how much you've taken and how long you've taken it. If you've taken it for a while, or taken large doses of it, then it will be in your system longer.
Can opiates induce or contibute to mania in bipolar patient?
Mu opiates can cause manic or hypomanic reactions in patients with bipolar disorder - see
Mood-Elevating Effects of Opioid Analgesics in Patients With Bipolar DisorderCharles B. Schaffer; Thomas E. Nordahl; Linda C. Schaffer; Jeanne Howe
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2007;19:449-452.
Can a mixture of adhd benzo medication lithim medication cause a false high BAC breathelizer result?
Not unless you have alcohol in your blood stream that you drank to get it there.
How do you know when your system is clean of pills?
Go two weeks without and your system should be good to go--depending whether you are addicted or not.
I'm going to assume 'assay of opiates' means one has tested positive for opiates in their system. Opiate's can range from the prescription hydrocodone to heroin.
Do antidepressants help former opiate addicts recover better?
yes they do as a former addict i know for a fact it does help but i was also on antidepressants and still on opiates too and found that antidepressants sort of lower the high feeling that you get from opiates so it can help with the detox by lowering the craving you get and speeding up the clearing of your system. I'm still doing some research on whether or not antidepressants do cancel out the opiate effect i know it does for LSD and somewhat of THC but I'm not sure
This isn't a professional answer so dint take it as one its just from former experience I'm still pretty young. hope i helped =)
What is the half life morphine sulfate er?
It's terminal elimination half-life after intravenous administration is normally 2 to 4 hours. In some studies involving longer periods of plasma sampling, a longer terminal half-life of about 15 hours was reported.
Police may lawfully enter a home by consent, with a search warrant, or in the case of exigent (unusual or emergency) circumstances, such as when they believe a crime is in progress inside. While it is possible for police to enter your home and plant drugs there, just as it is possible for anyone else to do so, the entry would be unlawful.
What interferes with methodone for your urine to come up as a opiate?
Because it's an opioid agonist, methadone (not "methodone") is considered to be an opiate by the majority of medical professionals, therefore nothing has to interfere with it for ones urine to test positive for opiates. If samples are analyzed by an immunoassay method, and a sample is positive for any drug tested, then the sample is typically analyzed using gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS). I know that if my sample tested positive for something that was analyzed by immunoassay, then I would demand that it be analyzed by GC/MS or they would be speaking to my lawyer next. People's lives can be ruined by a false positive drug test. That is why the company or person running the test better make darn sure that a positive result is truly a positive result.
Some drug tests for "Opiates" only analyze a sample for morphine and morphine derivatives such as heroin, codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromethone, and possibly a few others. Other "Opiate" drug tests look for the ones just listed plus the synthetic opiates such as methadone, fentanyl, and meperidine (Demerol™). At least in the USA, methadone is not prescribed nearly as often, nor is it nearly as available on the street as morphine and its derivatives. Hence, a person is less likely to be tested for it. It simply depends on what tests the person in charge of the drug testing program chooses, or must choose in some cases, although it's a very good bet that that person doesn't know jack about drug testing. In the vast majority of cases, the decision is based on how many bucks a drug-testing lab can get a company to spend on drug testing.
The two basic methods used to test for drugs have already been mentioned: Immunoassay and GC/MS. Drug tests performed by immunoassay methods are inherently less sensitive and less discriminating than tests performed by GC/MS. That is, analyses by immunoassay have significantly higher detection limits and are much more likely to yield a false positive result compared to GC/MS analyses. For those reasons, higher cut-off limits are assigned to every analyte concentration result determined by an immunoassay method in order to eliminate, or at least to significantly reduce, the number of false positives. By definition, a cut-off limit cannot be less than the method detection limit for any given analyte, and it is usually considerably higher. This means that if a drug or its metabolite is detected in a sample, but the sample result for that drug or metabolite is at or below the cut-off limit, then the sample will be reported as "Negative" for that drug.
There are definitely several different analytical methods that test for methadone. If methadone is looked for on a drug test, and the one being tested has taken it in the previous 5-10 days, then the person being tested will usually test positive for it. The reason methadone can still be detected five or more days after the last dose is due to its long biological half life and its preferred solubility in ones adipose tissue (fat).
The report for a typical partial drug screen for opiates will usually look something like the semi-phoney one below:
ANALYTE DRUG RESULT DET. LIMIT CUT-OFF LIMIT POS./NEG.
(ηg/mL) (ηg/mL) (ηg/mL) (+/-)
methadone methadone 335 60 500 -
6-acetylmorphine heroin < 85 85 200 -
oxymorphone oxycodone 475 100 200 +
α- & β-oxymorphol oxymorphone <30 30 100 -
hydrocodone hydrocodone 700 60 500 +
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How are poppy plant harvested?
using the pods after the flower pedals fall .they first are sliced very shallow several times till opium leaks out then they use a spoon to collect it..
then...once youve done alll that you can just cut them about 6 inches from the base of the plant leave to dry and cut the pod in half and harvest the seeds from the inside.
What does taking suboxone after opiates do?
suboxone/subutex is the latest prescription drug that can be substituted in place of another narcotic..
sub stops the horrible withdrawal symptoms when going off a narcotic once you're addicted..unfortunately you are simply replacing one narcotic for another narcotic..
although word is getting off suboxone much easier than getting off methadone,
so switching to suboxone to get off methadone and then getting off subutex certainly make sense..in the case of getting off other narcotics[percs,Oxycontin,morphine,etc] can't really say that getting off suboxone is any easier than getting off those other narcotics because subutex is just another synthetic narcotic..
