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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards | negrogesic

How long do you have to do opiates (oxycodone) for the half life to change

Tajaodan

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Read on line that if you do oxycodone for a exteneded amount of time it will stay in system for a longer amount of time. So say you do 60 mg a day for 2 weeks and it normally takes 3-5 days for it to leave your system through the 3-4.5 hour half life process will this make for a longer period for the drugs to leave your system. What makes them stay in your system longer if done for longer period of times.
 
It's not that the HL is increasing or decreasing, the drug just builds up in your system, saturating it , making it seem like its extending the excretion process..



- Hopeless
 
Then what do you mean by the buildup? From what ive read online it says it stays in your system longer if you have been using for an extended period of time.
 
If you have more in your system, your body will have more to excrete, thus taking more time.. The drugs half life doesn't change..


- hs
 
It's not that the HL is increasing or decreasing, the drug just builds up in your system, saturating it , making it seem like its extending the excretion process..



- Hopeless

Yes, this is called "steady state". I'd sorta have to draw a graph to really explain this but taking a drug regularly causes it to build up in your body. If you only take a drug once then it will get totally cleared from your body if you wait long enough. If you take a second and third (and fourth...) dose before the first dose gets cleared out fully then it starts to build up. If you take it regularly it gets to a point where your body won't really take anymore in and the amount in your system stays more or less constant. For most drugs, 2 weeks of daily use is enough to reach steady state and it would take longer to leave your system than just one dose would.

The half life doesn't change. The shorter the half life, the fewer days it would take to get to the steady state.
 
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