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Tips in passing a drug test are everywhere on the Internet, but unfortunately most of them are written by someone wanting to sell you detox products. Did you know that virtually all drugs besides marijuana are out of your system within just a few days? Yep. Only weed has such a long detection time, so that’s the reason why smokers need realistic tips in passing a drug test more than anyone.

Anyway, someone who bought my e-book recently is - get this - a lab supervisor who actually used to oversee drug testing.  He’s a smoker who had to take a drug test himself for a job offer at another lab. Talk about ironic. So I thought to myself, who better to ask for tips in passing a drug test from?? He was open to the idea of letting me interview him via chat, so that I could post it on my blog. It turned out to be pretty long, so I decided to post it in two parts. You can read the rest of this interview at Tips in Passing a Drug Test - Part II.

JOHN: Well you get right to the point don’t you, lol. That’s a fair question and I knew you would probably ask me something like that. It’s a real sore spot for me, because of course I thought about that, on almost a daily basis in fact. I wasn’t directly involved with administering drug tests but I was in charge of the procedure, you’re right. But the bulk of the lab work we did was medical analysis for hospitals and clinics and the drug testing came later after I’d worked there for almost 2 years. Just on principle I would have liked to have quit immediately, but I had a family to consider so it was complicated. I continued working there for another 18 months or so, and it’s a huge relief to me now to finally be working at another lab that doesn’t perform drug testing. So, when you asked me to share some tips in passing a drug test for your readers, I guess I saw it as an opportunity to kind of balance my karma a little.

DEE: Thanks for your honest answer, John, and I’m really glad for your sake that you don’t work there anymore! But that brings me to my next obvious question - as a lab supervisor, I would’ve thought you’d know everything there is to know about how to pass a drug test. So when you needed to pass a urine drug test for your position at the lab where you’re working now, why did you need to get my e-book? I’ve been curious about this ever since you told me about what you do.

JOHN: Good question. Well it’s like this: part of my former job as lab supervisor was to keep up on the literature about current drug testing procedures, and to monitor information about known methods that people use in their attempts to get a false negative on a urine test. So yes, I knew I had all the information I needed to pass a drug test. But to be perfectly honest, I was also just as nervous as anyone else is who is facing a drug test. If for some reason I didn’t pass, it would have seriously damaged my reputation in the industry. So I suppose just as a way to reassure myself that I hadn’t missed anything I was looking on the Internet when I came across your e-book. It intrigued me because it was obvious to me that you had a grasp of the mechanics of hiding dilution, and I suppose I was curious about what you recommended to people.

DEE: So does that mean you agree with the entire premise of my e-book, that dilution is the best way to pass a urine drug test for marijuana?

JOHN: Oh yes, most definitely. It isn’t just the best way, it’s actually the only way. You have pretty good researching skills, and you got that part exactly right.

DEE: Thank you! But there are a lot of tips in passing a drug test out there that don’t even mention dilution, so could you explain, in layman’s terms, why it works so well for passing a urine test?

JOHN: Sure. Well, as I believe you state in your book THC is fat soluble and its metabolites are mainly excreted through the urine. THC metabolites will eventually be eliminated from fat cells over time of course, but since it isn’t possible to eliminate the fat cells themselves quickly, what a person can do is to dilute their urine output so that it has a much lower concentration of these metabolites.

Think of it like this: The human body can only contain so much water, and no more. If a person continues to drink fluids past the point at which the body is well hydrated, then the kidneys attempt to regulate the hydration level. To do that, they begin to pull water from other areas of the body in order to eliminate fluids via urination, to balance the excess fluids being taken in. Without this regulation process, along with frequent urination, water poisoning would occur (which can be fatal). So when a person drinks a large volume of water to pass a drug test, they are not actually increasing the efficiency of the kidneys. What they’re doing is simply increasing the amount of water in their urine, and thus decreasing the concentration of THC metabolites present.

I think it’s important for someone to understand this distinction. With dilution, THC metabolites aren’t actually eliminated from the body (only time or extremely rapid weight loss could accomplish that) but they are simply less concentrated in the urine. But as you know, the dilution process lowers the concentration of every other element that’s normally present in urine, which is how a test lab can identify when someone is actively trying to pass a drug test.

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How to pass a urine test is pretty straightforward, but I’m constantly amazed by all the false information that’s out there being passed around. But if you’re feeling desperate about finding a way to pass a drug test, I can understand why you might be tempted to go with something that ’sounds good.’ And especially if this is your first time being tested, it can be really hard to tell the good info about how to pass a urine test from the bad.

Sometimes I feel like a preacher or something, I swear. But instead of getting up on a pulpit to spew about fire and brimstone and the wages of sin, I’m always up on my soapbox trying to get through to people that dilution is the only way they’re going to pass a urine test. And instead of fighting the devil, my nemesis is a mountain of misinformation.

What about you? Have you heard about dilution and then just dismissed it as yet another weird theory about how to pass a urine test? Well, before you write it off, think about this: you know those detox drinks you can buy? That’s exactly how they work: DILUTION, plain and simple. Yes, I KNOW they claim to ‘cleanse’ your system, blah, blah, blah. I hate to be the one to tell you that there’s no Santa Claus, but… there’s no Santa Claus. The only thing detox drinks will ‘cleanse’ is your wallet, and their marketing hype is all just smoke and mirrors.

Which isn’t to say that detox drinks don’t work, because they do - sometimes. The big problem with them is just that they’re not very reliable. You are waaaay better off buying the same ingredients that are in those things and custom-making your own ‘detox drink’ at home. It’s the only way to know for sure if you’re taking the right amount of those supplements for YOUR body, plus doing it at home means you have the chance to test yourself before you even walk into the lab. There’s information about how to make your own detox drink plastered all over this website, but if you’re in a hurry and you just want it all in one place then you can check out my ebook about how to pass a drug test.

When you read the directions on any commercial detox drink, every single one tells you to drink lots of water before drinking it. The reason why is because those companies know the truth - that dilution is the only way to pass a urine test in a hurry. But a good sales pitch can make common dirt sound like the answer to your prayers, so they have to make you believe that their products contain some secret potion that can miraculously wash THC out of your system. But the reality is that it’s the water you drink that temporarily ‘washes’ the THC out of your system. All a detox drink does is provide you with the supplements you need in order to hide the fact that you’re diluting from the testing lab.

The thing I probably get asked about the most is Sure-Jell, or Certo (same thing). Of all the home remedies out there about how to pass a drug test I think this is one of the most dangerous, because it actually does appear to work sometimes. But you know what? Whenever I’ve talked to people that passed with Sure-Jell, every single person has told me that they also diluted. But most of the people I’ve talked to who’ve used Sure-Jell didn’t pass, either because they didn’t dilute at all, or because they diluted too much and the testing lab failed them for it. If you’re thinking about using this method because someone you know passed with it, ask them to tell you exactly what steps they used. I bet you discover the same thing I did.

Another theory about how to pass a urine test that you’ve probably read about is taking huge amounts of niacin - and this one really makes me crazy. Not only is it useless for passing a drug test, you can actually cause permanent damage to your liver if you overdose on it. Which isn’t that hard to do when you’re taking like 100 times or more the recommended daily dose. I’m pretty sure this one got started from a book written by L. Ron Hubbard (the Scientology founder) years ago, about a purification/detoxification program he came up with for drug addicts. I’m not saying niacin isn’t an important vitamin, but Hubbard thought it could basically save the world. But uh, last I checked the guy didn’t have any degrees in medicine or nutrition, so his advice is based on opinion, not fact. And then there’s that whole Scientology thing. That’s all I’ll say about that…

And then there are other miracle cures: cranberry juice (diuretic, just makes you pee more), vinegar (changes the PH of your urine), etc. etc. etc. You get the idea. Believe me, I know how overwhelming it is when you see how much different information there is on the net about how to pass a drug test. You’d think it’d be easy to find out, but man, it is not. In the end it comes down to an entirely personal decision, but when it comes to specifically how to pass a urine test, I hope I’ve at least given you some food for thought. I’m not saying there’s not good information out there, but before you choose a method to go with just take everything you read with a grain of salt, verify your sources, and above all, ask lots of questions.

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Beating saliva drug tests is by far the easiest of all, so there’s really no excuse for not passing them. But I have a sad story about someone who managed to fail one anyway, and I decided that it’s a good cautionary tale that I should share here. It was a situation that could have been avoided SO easily - if this guy had just taken beating saliva drug tests more seriously.

This all happened a couple of months ago. Ryan bought my ebook on a Monday, and he had a pre-employment drug test coming up on Thursday that same week. The reason I know this is because he emailed me on that Monday with a question after he read the ebook.

Turns out he was having a combination drug test and physical, and he needed some advice. Ryan’s lab appointment was for 8 a.m. on Thursday, and he said that the instructions he was given said for him not to eat or drink anything after 10 p.m. the night before, except for water, plain coffee or plain tea. For some reason (I have no idea why) this made him absolutely certain that he was going to be given a urine test, and he wanted to know if I thought the lab would be able to tell if he took the ingredients I recommend for how to pass a urine test. He didn’t mention anything about beating saliva drug tests, and they obviously weren’t on his mind at all.

Now, before this happened I had only heard of someone being told not to eat before coming in for a drug test – I’d never actually met someone who was told this, because it’s pretty rare. From everything I know about how to pass a drug test (which is a lot), there’s no hard evidence that what you eat makes a bit of difference in any drug test method. But knowing what I know about how the different tests work, common sense told me that the only possible test it might be required for would be a mouth swab.

So I emailed Ryan back right away and I told him that although I didn’t have any direct knowledge of this requirement, I was 99% certain that he needed to follow the method I give for beating saliva drug tests. I also told him he could use the instructions for how to pass a urine test at the same time if it would make him feel more confident about being prepared (I just had a feeling he was stuck on this idea). But since it is SO EASY to pass a saliva test, I really tried to get across to him that he needed to be prepared for one. (And I also reassured him that it is impossible for labs to detect when someone uses the methods I give, so he didn’t need to worry about that.)

Well, you can probably already see where this is going. Yup, sure enough, he was given a saliva test - which he hadn’t done any preparation for AT ALL - and he failed the test. I don’t know why he didn’t take my advice. False confidence? Maybe a touch of laziness? He sent me another email after he got his test results and admitted that he was a complete idiot for not listening to me. But this is one time when I really would have preferred to be wrong, because he missed out on a really good job as a result of all this.

So, long story short, Ryan and I kept in touch and fortunately things did eventually work out for him I’m happy to say. He finally got another job offer about a week ago, AND he had to pass another drug test. But this time they told him upfront that he was getting a piss test, so he followed the instructions in my e-book about urine tests (again) and passed with no problems at all. He sounds pretty happy with the job he ended up with, but I don’t think he’d want to go through all that grief again if he had it to do over.

So what’s the moral of poor Ryan’s story? Just that even if how to pass a drug test is really easy, you MUST take them seriously, folks. You and I know that it’s complete insanity for people to be wigged out about the humble weed, but the fact is that there are a lot of insane people who pull the strings and decide who gets hired and who gets to keep their job. And like I said before - this sooo did not have to happen, because beating saliva drug tests is so frikin’ easy.

p.s. By the way - if a lab ever gives you instructions not to eat for hours and hours before you go in for a drug test, JUST IGNORE THEM. They’re only asking because they want to get the most accurate results possible. So if your goal is beating saliva drug tests, why help the lab? ;-)

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