Tramadol drug testing

[hh339]

SWIM is about to have some tramadol. Now SWIMS friend recently told SWIM that they actually tested him for it. I have searched the web for it and so far all the info say that they will not test for it. SWIM thinks his friend may be lying, but anyway, better safe than sorry. It is not a true opiate, so my bet is that it wont be any problems for SWIM. I mean, it would probably be kind of expensive for them to test it for tramadol. I know they have not tested for it in the past, but has there been any changes lately? Anyone?

[Bajeda]

Tramadol is not screened for and should not produce any sort of postive on a standard urine test. The half-life of Tramadol is about 7 hours. A mass spectrometer (gc/ms) would probably be required to detect it after a simple urine extraction method. While this is possible to do, it is not standard procedure even for urine tests which are processed in labs. So unless a urine sample is being sent in to a laboratory, it is unlikely that Tramadol will cause any sort of positive test result.

Reputation Comments on this post:

good info, well explained

[Forthesevenlakes]

its true. tramadol is not tested for in most urine tests. it doesnt even false-positive for heroin, to swim's knowledge. he knows lab rats who have taken it a day or two before a standard six panel test, and passed with flying colors.

presumably, the only color really flying at the time was a soothing shade of yellow.

[oxyaddict05]

I am in an outpatient rehab for oxycontin and when I checked in I told them one of the drugs I used was tramadol. Does anyone know if they will test for Tramadol in my urine tests? Does anyone have first hand experience with this? Thanks

[jerbles]

SWIM has a urine test coming up on thursday (5 days) and plans to stop using heroin tommorow (monday) which gives SWIM 4 days. The withdrawels are gonna kill swim though, and he usually takes Tramadol to cope with them. Since tramadol isn't actually an opiate, will it show up as an opiate or what will it be?

SWIM also plans on taking cranberry pills, drinking cranberry juice/lots of water and maybe some surejel.

[kyleguy]

The tramadol would most likely be picked up on a drug test. It works on the same receptors (to a much lower affinity though) as do your other typical opiates so swim imagines it would most likely be found under the opiates category. It shouldn't matter though if swiy takes many precautions to clean out ones system, swiy should be fine.

[trptamene]

UTFSE

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19950

[sarbanes]

That logic is all wrong. Tramadol does NOT show up on basic drug of abuse screens. However, it can be detected if specified, & for an additional cost. The narcotic effect of tramadol has no direct relationship to its ability (or inability) to be picked up by various panels.

[jerbles]

so it wouldn't show up as an opiate?

[JaWill88]

no it wouldn't.

[Wallet]

Excuse me if this has been asked before but i searched and didn't find anything. SWIM may have a drug test coming up in a couple days. SWIM has taken some Tramadol the day before. Is this something that will come up in a drug test or no? It's a synthetic so SWIM was hoping no.

[fiveleggedrat]

Swim is not sure if this has been asked before, but really, Swim believes this has VERY little chance of showing up. Swim is a long-time tramadol user and has never worried about it showing up on standard drug tests.

A very expensive, professional test that isolates anything and everything, like a gas spectro, is the only way they could detect it, AFAIK.


If anyone else has info, please feel free to correct me.

[Wallet]

Five - Have you taken a drug test when you had taken tramadol?

[fiveleggedrat]

No, Swim has not been drug tested before.

Here, let me try to help.

Tramadol is a synthetic opioid. It differs from most that is it completely made in labs, as opposed to being from poppies at some time in it's life, like other opioids.

Drug tests commonly are "dipstick" tests, where a paper that detects drugs is dipped into urine. Anyone feel free to correct me whenver. These only detect a few drugs, and for opioids, that would most likely include older, bigger ones like morphine and heroin. Swim is not aware of codeine being tested for often. I only mention codeine because since tramadol is slightly related to codeine, it could cause a false positive for codeine. However, this is Swim thinking, and this could have ZERO ground and could be completely wrong.

Drug tests are really not my expertise. This information can be found however. Look for information about tramadol's drug half life (To see if it would be out of your system by now), whether or not tramadol is tested for on drug tests, and whether or not tramadol causes any false positives on drug tests. Those will answer all your questions.

Reputation Comments on this post:

fascinating. well argued and well thought out

[Panthers007]

Codeine has the same molecular outline as morphine/heroin - so it will show up. Tramadol is utterly synthetic and has no molecular similarity to standard opiates. So, unless a specific test is developed for tramadol, it will not appear as an opiate.

[fiveleggedrat]

Haha, thanks, I really was curious about that myself.

[Micklemouse]

Tramadol shows up as tramadol on NHS (UK National Health Service) lab drug tests & should not cause false positives for other opiates on a standard or otherwise test.

Once again, Google is our friend - http://answers.google.com/answers/th...id/760605.html A couple of years old perhaps but should still hold true

From the site linked to in the above link -

http://www.occ-doc.net/_disc6/0000043a.htm

[top]Re: Tramadol drug test

From: Robert Swotinsky MD
Date: 06 Oct 2007
Time: 15:24:25 -0700
Remote Name: 71.233.246.147

Comments

Check the LabCorp web site - it lists a urine test for tramadol. I've cut and pasted LabCorp's tramadol text as follows:
Tramadol, Urine Number 764365 CPT 80101 Synonyms Ultram Test Includes Immunoassay and confirmation of presumptive positives by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) Special Instructions Chain-of-custody documentation is required for samples submitted for pre-employment, random employee testing, and forensic purposes. For other applications, use the standard request form. Please mark chain-of-custody test number on the request form. Specimen Urine Volume 30 mL Container Use plastic urine drug bottle and tamper-evident seal for forensic specimen. Collection kits are available by request from the laboratory. Collection Urine temperature monitoring is recommended for samples to be tested for medicolegal purposes. Storage Instructions Maintain specimen at room temperature unless arrival at the laboratory will extend beyond 7 days. If arrival extends beyond 7 days, then refrigerate. Causes for Rejection Quantity not sufficient for analysis; improper specimen (serum, plasma, blood); incomplete chain-of-custody documentation; incomplete specimen identification Use Drugs of abuse testing Methodology Immunoassay; gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) ______________________________
As you may already realize, tramadol will not cause a positive result for "opiates" in a standard workplace drug testing panel.

[igna1827]

Hi, I'm new and I read all the posts before typing my own. But sorry if I am a little slow on this, can a test really show that indeed, yes you have taken tramadol in the past few days?? SWIM has a test in like 16 hours and took about 300mg of the stuff. Is SWIM's test going to be positive. The test is not with urine, is with bloodm that means they take a needle and take out some blood from your arm. Can a specific test show tramadol in your blood???

[bigearl]

tramadol isn't a controlled substance. You're good... FDA and DEA doesn't monitor it.

[Censor]

What's the difference if they're testing your hair? SWIM had a hair test 4 weeks after taking a single 50mg Tram tablet, and has reason to believe that they'll test for anything and freakin' everything.

[hh339]

I had actually forgotten about this thread, even thou I started it. Baah fuck it who am I kidding, I forget just about everything. Anyway, when SWiM was doing some time in prison a while back, he was tested for tramadol, along with all the other inmates. At the time, very many inmates were using it, since the guards had never tested for it before. After "lockdown" at night SWiM and company used to have fun and do some tramadol. Some people used up to 2 grams total (pure tramadol HCl) in a night, but when they started testing for it, only the ones tested the morning after got caught. The ones tested later in the evening gave clean urine samples, so it seems that it doesn't show up on the screens for long at all. When SWiM got out, he noticed that they had started testing for it on the outside too, but they used an additional screen that shows traces of tramadol metabolites only. Today they test for it frequently over here but not in all cases. Anyway, to answer my own question, YES they test for it now.