How long do I need to wait after taking morphine to drive

Google half life of morphine

 

It will be totally out of your system in 3-4 days. I'd give it 5 just to be safe.

 

You took a controlled substance. Don't drive for several days.

Also do not make legal decisions, household or other important decisions during this time. Your ER would have given you a paper to warn about that and assigned a family member or other sober person to get you home.

Morphine does not resolve well in my system in pill form. They usually put me on Demerol or equivilant which puts me out about two weeks before I do anything like driving. Good stuff. Im already opioid tolerant as a pain patient which is a permanent and life long situation.

People who are not used to narcotics will make really basic and outrageous errors in driving and the Police scoop them up and toss em into jail for DUI.

One more thing. If you are given a bottle with the pills. Keep that bottle with you or leave the #### thing at home entirely. YOU MUST NOT have any pills loose anywhere in your person, vehicle, wrapped in plastic etc without the labeled bottle. Further you cannot have less pills than marked pillcount versus number of days presecribed. They will count the things to see if you abuse (Take early) or divert them for sales if given an oppertunity. It's best to stay home until the medicine is gone plus 5 days.

Another reason is when you run out in a few days it's a defense against addicition which is mental first then physical in about 30 hours which leads to... stomach nausea, sweats, high blood pressure (Which is used against you to detect early run out of medicine for long term patients)and a mental craving to get that high or eliminate the pain any way you can. That takes about 5 more days to resolve physically but up to 90 days mentally.

My last tour on xanax took 18 months to leave my system with it's effects, my doctor was amazed that I was one of three strong enough to walk away from that stuff. I can never use that again ever.

Anyway. Most people given pain medicine for a few days max or a week or so so that when you run out, the surgery scar is healing or other damage is healing nicely and you dont need anymore pain medicine because that will lead to addiction you cannot control.

Am I a addict? No. But the doctor and State limits doses to a certain number of pills and size each day and visit once a month for tests and assessment. If there is a downhill trend to addiciton they will simply kick you out of the program and there you are. The State knows when you fill medicine. In fact...

My regular general doctor does not prescribe Narcotics anymore even if you presented with a broken bone, you would be referred to the ER. Let them do it because of excessive heat from DEA every time he wrote one.

I said quite a bit here. Pain Medicine has been or is being pushed towards a sort of situation in which it will be ended at some point in the future. A Government with the correct people without the consent of you and me etc would criminalize pain medicine and deny it totally outside of a hospital or controlled facility. Because it is a killer. It stops your breathing and destroys whatever life and family you have built prior to that. Overdoeses currently is greater in number each week nationally as if we were engaged in a war with a great power.

 

I had to wait 24 hours to driver as I was told by the safety director where I am working at. He had to tell me that before it was decided that I won't return until the first of the year after my accident.

Other places require 48 hours, like LS and Fedex, some require at least 24 hours to 36 hours.

I don't think there is a regulation, and seeing it was a prescribe medication, a DOT drug test would have to take that in account and ignore the positive.

 

A positive result has a certain amount of built in thresholds. For example Poppy seeds in spices from Spain has Opium residude from the same plants that is used to grow it. Actually is a foundation for Morphine. Which converts to Codeine inside your system then is peed out. Such a chemisty result if you took a great deal of a certain poppy seed to get the Opium is a indicator of Heroin abuse which is what it really is when processed slightly differently. Most food processors run poppy seed in roasting and cleaning in fluids to get rid of the opium residue on them.

Any positive drug test if you are called in right from the cab of a 18 wheeler is a killer. You are done. You can bring all sorts of reasons and piles of prescriptions from your ER doc but the bottom line is that you have a positive when you should not have driven a 18 wheeler with that stuff inside of you.

In my time I used to tell the ER doc that I will be driving truck out of there when they fixed the boo boo that got smashed in the grocery warehouse or something and no narcotics. They did a pretty good job with tramadol etc and other liquid equivilants of aleve, Moltrin etc. (4 pills of store moltrin is prescription strength by the way... 4 times a day.)

The drug tests I take once a month is different because they expect a certain level of dose which is maintained in the blood and also hunt for Heroin or other similar metobolites which will reveal outside abuse from a drug dealer etc. Plus smoking as well. If they detected that, it's over. It is also used to detect abuse by running out early. People who abuse will go through 120 pills limit per month in about 5 days. Pof gone. Then either wake up dead or wake up in withdrawl and unable to get anymore. And are finished. Sometimes suicide.

 

@x1Heavy - chew betel nut.

 

I am in NC and as of 1 Nov 2016 my Dr. does not prescribe any type of narcotics. The out of pockets costs and the process was too much for them. So, if you need narcotics they will refer you to a pain center. I can see the increase in traffic at ER's now.

 

I would wait at least 30 minutes.

 

Good grief.

All the man asked was how long he needed to wait before driving.