Is it true that drinking vinegar the night before a urinalysis will clear the illicit drugs out of your system?
I heard this rumor a lot when I was in the military, and was subject to surprise piss tests. Just the mere rumor of an impending piss tests would get the druggies sipping out of their vinegar jars.
So is there anything in vinegar that will flush the drugs out of a persons system? Or is that just a baseless rumor.
It’s not completely baseless. I don’t think I should go into much detail here about beating drug tests, but changing the pH of your urine one way or another can affect the rate of elimination of certain drugs. I don’t know how much vinegar acidifies your urine, but for some drugs acidification would be useless or even counterproductive.
yeah, plus most drug tests actually test for common ‘remedies’. goldenseal, bleach, vinegar.
sucks, man.
jb
Speaking as a certified medical review officer (special training for using and certifying drug tests) I’d just like to say that the tests are very difficult to beat chemically, and that some of the things suggested on the web to beat them are downright dangerous. In addition, tampering with the sample is getting easier to detect.
In addition, the thresholds for detection are set high enough that arguments like “someone next to me was smoking weed, and I must have breathed too much in that way” are not truly scientifically possible.
Speaking of vinegar… I don’t know how much good it will do you, internally, but have heard that shady characters like to take a bath in it to remove gunshot residue.