Erowid Oxycodone Vault : Drug Tests

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Oxycodone and Drug Tests
by Erowid

Tested for in Standard Drug Tests?	NO
Tested for in Extended Drug Tests?	SOMETIMES
Detection Period in Urine	3-4 days

Most basic drug urine tests that test for "opiates" detect morphine, which both heroin and codeine break down into. Morphine is not a major metabolite of oxycodone, so these standard opiate tests generally do not succesfully detect low to moderate oxycodone use.

However, several inexpensive urine drug tests are currently available that also test for oxycodone, with a detection cutoff of 100 ng/mL. Oxycodone is also detectable by more expensive (and more rare) GC/MS and HPLC laboratoray testing.

High dose or frequent recent use of oxycodone may leave enough morphine in the body to be detected even by basic tests. In Dec 2004, we received email from someone who tested positive for opiate use, on a standard urine drug screen, after snorting 15-50 mg of oxycodone most days for the 3 weeks before a test.

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The North American Oxycodone Story 2001-2002
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Drug Testing Vault

Last Modified - Tue, Apr 15, 2008

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