How Long Does Cocaine Stay in Your System?

Good question but if you are asking “how long does cocaine stay in your system” the obvious long term thought is why are you worried?

Now is the time to consider long term realization where the cocaine will take you.

The answer short term is 2 – 4 days depending how much water you drink.  Cocaine leaves your system quickly because it is mostly water soluble and is mixed in your body fluids. As these body fluids are flushed out of your body the cocaine goes with it. Coke stays longer, and both depend on the amounts and length of usage.  Common sense says that if you are a daily user it will take much longer to work it through than a infrequent user.  This is only for a urinalysis, a hair follicle test is something different altogether.

A detox kit can accelerate the process, many are not effective.  So it is like Russian roulette trying to find a good one if you have a screening coming up.  Many users keep one on hand.

The obvious question tho is, are you worried about passing a test … or are you worried about the long term cocaine effects?

Hair Follicle Test

When you use, metabolites are produced as the drug goes through the body.  As the metabolites circulate through the blood stream they enter and provide nourishment for the hair follicle’s and then enter the hair strand.  The hair follicle test is often used because with the urine test the drug is out of your system more quickly, and the hair strand retains the drug longer.

A hair follicle test is susceptible to a variation in time because of the growth rate of hair.  A standard screen covers a time frame of approximately 90 days.  In the screen process, the hair is cut close as possible to the scalp and the lower 1.5 inches is used.  Tests have shown that the normal hair grows about 1/2 inch per month, giving aa approximate 90 day or 3 month test.

Detox hair shampoo is available, but the sure thing is to abstain from using!

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