Piss Testing for Meth

What do they look for when testing for meth? I thought meth was made up of legal substances (cold pills, sinus tablets, etc) so how could you flunk a piss test?

 

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All a urine test has to do is isolate a single substance and look for it and at what levels. sure there can be legal substances to show trace amounts but a speed freak would not haver normal levels in urine. the theory is that not many people would take 2,000 cold pills in one day.

 

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ah, that makes sense. Is that how they can tell someone smokes weed and didn't just walk into a room full of smokers?

 

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THC stays in your fat cells and leaches out, making it detectable in urine tests for weeks. I dont think anyone has ever gotten busted in a urine test for standing around someone smoking. Maybe if you were locked in a closet with a few bongs and people smoking but ypu would have breath realllly deeply.

 

If you were in a room full of like 20 people smoking cannabis, enough to make you start coughing and feel sick, would that show up?

 

It might but there is a big difference to actually forcing it into your lungs and blood stream while smoking. It is like crack and cocaine same substance different effects, why? because it goes through the lungs- taking a more direct route to the blood stream.

 

People have been busted for testing positive for opiates after eating poppy seed muffins.

 

see, I've heard that, but always assumed it was urban myth. :shrug:
but apparently its true.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp

 

And for the longest time the promoters of drug testing didn't check that out.

 

so now what do they do?

 

I have no idea.

 

They use sesame seeds now and have been for many years.

 

Meth made in home "labs" involve a lot of chemicals, but they all go through chemical reactions to create the end product, which is then purified out through crystallization. Some sinus tablets and allergy medicines have ephedrine or pseudo-ephedrine in them, which are analogs of amphetamines and have a similar effect on the body. I'm not really sure if those cold/allergy medicines are used in producing crystal meth, however. I'm sure I could find it online, but meh.

 

Not on the poppy seed covered bread I buy.

 

They did it on mythbusters, poppy seeds DO make you come up dirty. But maybe that is with certain tests, there are different kinds.

 

Er John, I wasn't arguing that. I was telling Cosmic that you can still get poppy seeds on bread products. He seemed to be saying that poppy seeds had been supplanted by sesame seeds on such, and that isn't the case.

 

oh ok. poppy seeds are the little black ones.

 

Here are what they look like. You really can't tell the difference if you didn't know.

http://www.murrayhill5.net/blog/inmykitchenblog/kitchenimages/blackpearl/blacksesame.jpg


Here are the poppy seeds.

http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/gourmet/pic/n_poppys.jpg

 

Technically yes, but a urine test is easy to defeat. If you are slim and have little body fat, you already have an advantage.
All you have to do is drink a shitload of water starting at least 3-4 hours before you take the test. In a nutshell, your kidneys more or less just allow the excess water to bypass them straight into your bladder. So when you go to pee pee in the cup, you're pissing mostly water. I've passed more than one piss test by this method.

 

I can taste the difference. Besides, poppy seeds are small and round, and sesame seeds are elongated, easy to tell the difference.