I was just wondering how long heroin will show up in a drug test. I have a feeling my husband used on Friday when he was off work and hanging around with his loser friends. He was short $10.00 and he looked a little high to me and during the night he was scratching himself all night and talking in his sleep which he hasnt done in a long time. He has to randomly take drug tests for his probation and today his code came up so he has to go and take one. He doesnt seem stressed about it at all but I am cuz I cant do this again if he violates and goes back to prison. He has been doing so good that I know of. He used about a month ago when he first got out and I went off and threw him out and all that and he hasnt used since then. (that I know of - but i take him to work and pick him up and he usually gives me all his money for the bills but this week he made a little extra and kept some and when i counted it he was short $10.00 after he had been with his friends). We had a big argument on Sunday about his loser friends but he said those are his friends and he's not changing them. he doesnt hang out with his friends but they call him all the time and with this job he has now he is off on fridays and so are they so one of them took the bus to go and hang out with him. pissed me off so bad. I am so stressed about this. oh yeah he also had said a while back that he knows how to pass the drug tests for heroin by just drinking a lot of water. but that doesnt sound very reliable to me.

Heroin is water solluble and will leave the system within 24 hours so he should be ok! You should think about your relationship though and if he is going back to old friends,old neighborhood he will end up back where he came from just a matter of time. I hope everything does work out for you i really do if you need to talk you can pm me -K-
-Bridgett-

I dont know anything on the drug use, but i agree with bbacic on this. If he really wants to "change", hes going to make LIFE changes, that includes old habbits and friends if they are not healthy or safe for him or you...

Although generally heroin stays in your system for only 24 hours everyone's body make up is different and it can stay in a persons system for up to 72 hours.

Thanks for the responses. I know I do have to think about this relationship if he is not willing to give up any of his old friends. He doesnt hang out with them during the week or weekends just on Fridays when he is off work and I have to work all day. I have become to hate fridays. I dont want to sound stupid but what does water solluble mean exactly. Does that mean that if he does drink a lot of water and tests the next day or the same day it wont show up in the test?

Not necessarily -- there is more than one type of heroin and some can stay in the system for up to 72 hours or longer! That's even if you have flushed with water!

It depend's how they test you for drug use.
I know when I had trouble at the prison with failing the drug scanner,I had a hair test for drugs,at my insistance.
If you come into contact with any drugs,it show's on your hair for 90 day's,so I'd have thought it must stay in your system for some time.

Boxersgirl--
How are things going?

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i've always know it to take 3 days, so if he has to take it monday it is cutting it close, so the water will come in handy, but he better make sure his results don't come back "too dilute" from all the water, i know you said he's not worried, but you can buy an over the counter test, it costs maybe $20-$30, its a urine one and it will tell you if there are any traces of marijuana, opiates(heroin) or cocain, by a bar next to each drug name, i wish you luck

When my boyfriend got violated this last time it was mainly because heroin kept showing up. (maybe that's because he kept using it?) Anways- I know that it stays in your system for atleast 3 days. He would always drop dirty.

Hi,
As someone who played the game with the urine test and lost...Heroin and Cocaine stay for 72 hours, but they also look for the metabolites, such as quinine..Quinine is just as dirty as heroin.

DocSusan

quinine? I am not familiar with that except club soda says it contains quinine in it!

help me out with his--Sassafrass (spelling is probably wrong) cleans your system when your sick, would it also work for this. If not something from the health food stores, called Goldenrod will. I have seen it clean up the worst of the worse.