Q: how long does it take for vicodin to get out of system if taken once?
If you are asking how long it takes for a particular drug to get out of your system for any reason other than passing a drug test, call your doctor or pharmacist for that information. If you are concerned about passing a drug test, following is the information you need.
If you are taking a drug that has been prescribed for you, all you have to do is take your prescription with you to the drug test and there should be no problem. If you are taking drugs other than those prescribed for you, the best thing we can do for you is encourage you to get any help you need to stop taking them as soon as possible. For information and help, call The National Alcohol and Substance Abuse Information Center hotline at 1-800-784-6776 in the U.S. and 1-215-784-1120 outside the U.S. or visit the NASAIC site at: http://www.addictioncareoptions.com/
For more information about employment-related drug screenings, read: "Passing" Those Drug Screenings
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Last year I was in a very minor car accident. I ran into the back of someone. It was poring down rain and they slammed on their brakes 3 times for no apparent reason. I, too, slammed on my brakes but, due to the wet road, on the third time I couldn't stop in time.
A policeman came and was leaning in my passenger window talking to me. Everything was going fine until he saw a prescription receipt for hydrocodone in my seat. He said, "Oh, what have we here?" He searched my car and purse but found no medications. He made me take a field sobriety test, which, according to all concerned, I passed with flying colors.
But he insisted on doing a blood test. It was negative for opiates but positive for benzodiazopine.
I have been on benzos since 1993, I can NOT function without them. I have severe panic and generalized anxiety.
The fact was, I had not taken any that day. The blood test did not check a level, just merely for the presence of. I tried to explain that the half-life of Xanax is 11.6 hours, so I WOULD test positive for several days. They charged me with DUI and threw me in jail. Several thousand dollars later, it was dropped to reckless driving, but I am on probation and have to do everything I would have done if it were DUI. I know this is not a legal site, but I feel I was discriminated against for I having mental illness. I am on disability for severe mental illness (several conditions). Is there anything I can do about this? Is there any agency set up to help people when these kinds of rights have been violated? I also have chronic pain from several conditions and test positive when my probation officer does routine UA's and he is now insisting I go through drug abuse classes. I do not abuse my meds, nor do I hop in my car and drive right after I take them. Is there anything I can do about that? It IS discrimination and I believe violation of Disability Act.