How long does suboxone stay in your system?

Suboxone will be mostly out of your system within 36 hours, by this time you will feel no effects of the drug (by this we mean no positive effects, but rather the individual could experience withdrawal for several days), but the half life of buprenorphine(which one of two drugs in suboxone) is up to 60 hours, so if in the vary rare event that you are tested for suboxone, than it is traceable for up to 72 hours at the most. But I can not stress enough that it is very unlikely for you to ever be tested for suboxone. Suboxone can only be detected through a specialized test specifically designed for it and it is very expensive (<-- This is actually not true. Most drug screens for jobs or even at drug treatment facilities will not test for buprenorphine (suboxone and subutex are both buprenorphine) but the tests are relatively inexpensive-about $1.75 ea). Suboxone does not show up on regular drug test and will not show up as any kind of opiate in regular test even though it is in the opiate family. Buprenorphine is a semisynthetic opioid analgesic which is why it doesn't show as an opiate, regular drug test can only detect pure non-synthetic opiates. If you are taking suboxone you should not really worry about drug test especially if you are taking it legally.

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