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How Long Do Tranquility Bath Salts Remain In The Body?

Hi! My husband has recently snorted tranquility bath salts which caused severe hallucinations and paranoia. It has been a couple of days since he used. He however needs to take a urine drug test for employment. Would it test positive? He is approx 5'10 and 145lbs. Prior to taking this a couple of days, he had not done any for about a month.
Mon, 20 Apr 2015
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It's uncommon for conventional drug tests to have anything that detects bath salts. On the other hand, the quality control of abused drugs off the street is pretty bad. it could be laced with practically anything. Amphetamine would be in the system up to about 5 days. Pretty unlikely.
And... should really avoid them if that is the reaction he gets.
Might cross react with MDMA (extasy)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23677923
but, at the 30% of the real drug level so.... 5 day limit might be closer to a 3 day limit for detection... this is being optimistic with the test being the right one, having good cross-reactivity, etc.
Since in general there is not specific testing for bath salts, it really probably won't be detected.
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How Long Do Tranquility Bath Salts Remain In The Body?

It s uncommon for conventional drug tests to have anything that detects bath salts. On the other hand, the quality control of abused drugs off the street is pretty bad. it could be laced with practically anything. Amphetamine would be in the system up to about 5 days. Pretty unlikely. And... should really avoid them if that is the reaction he gets. Might cross react with MDMA (extasy) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23677923 but, at the 30% of the real drug level so.... 5 day limit might be closer to a 3 day limit for detection... this is being optimistic with the test being the right one, having good cross-reactivity, etc. Since in general there is not specific testing for bath salts, it really probably won t be detected.