How Long Do Drugs Stay In The Body?

There are many things you should know before facing a drug test, detection time being one of them. Drug tests will use blood, saliva, sweat, hair, or urine to determine if certain drugs have been used prior to testing.

The list below shows the average time that each drug type remains detectable, per sample type. Note that the detection times for sweat are unknown for all drug types. You also might want to read about common myths surrounding drug tests.

Alcohol

Note: a urin alcohol test may test for ethyl glucuronide, which stays present for 80 hours.

Amphetamines

Note: excluded are “Meth” and MDMA.

Meth

Mdma

Barbiturates

Note: except Phenobarbital.

Phenobarbital

Benzodiazepines

Cannabinoids

Cocaine

Note: those with kidney problems may still test positive outside of these timeframes.

Codeine

Tca’S

Lsd

Methadone

Steroids

Pcp