Monitoring and had a pETh test 5.5 days ago

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I drank 2 shots (mini bottles) Friday and took a pETH test the following Thursday. I had not drank before. I didn't know or think about a pETh test. Huge mistake. It's been 3 days and no result yet. Any chance of passing? I know I risked a lot I just didn't think about it showing up for as long a pETh monitors. Thanks

Healer555 said:

Is your hair lighter ? Lighter hair can help not darker.  Hoping for negative test for you. No more alcohol or " mood altering substances " until you are done with your sentence. 

I have dark hair so more propensity to absorb ETG. Bleaching and hair dye contains H2O2 that degrades ETG. One study showed that out of 12 people, after hair dye 10 became negative after a hair dye having <7 pg/ml. Lets see what happens to me.

 

You are right I will not take a risk again. This is the first time I got relaxed and I was dumb to admit of accidental drinking before the results although the results came back negative. I have not used anything ever except marijuana few times and alcohol socially in the past but gets this misdiagnoses of marijuana use disorder. That is really frustrating. Even before coming to this program, I did not know much about the drugs and now I have learned a lot about drugs since in the monitoring. Sometimes even think to ask attorney to get out of this monitoring as every attorney says that you should not be in monitoring.

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I just received urine and drugscan blood panel 12 results which were negative. I Don't know whether they did peth test or not in this panel as I received results within 2 days. Last time labcorp did the test and cost of the test was same and they took 10 days. Hair test is still pending

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sam90 said:

I have dark hair so more propensity to absorb ETG. Bleaching and hair dye contains H2O2 that degrades ETG. One study showed that out of 12 people, after hair dye 10 became negative after a hair dye having <7 pg/ml. Lets see what happens to me.

 

You are right I will not take a risk again. This is the first time I got relaxed and I was dumb to admit of accidental drinking before the results although the results came back negative. I have not used anything ever except marijuana few times and alcohol socially in the past but gets this misdiagnoses of marijuana use disorder. That is really frustrating. Even before coming to this program, I did not know much about the drugs and now I have learned a lot about drugs since in the monitoring. Sometimes even think to ask attorney to get out of this monitoring as every attorney says that you should not be in monitoring.

As far as I know there's no getting out and keeping your license.  I don't have a SUD either and I think it's harder for those of us without a SUD.  The meetings are ridiculous for me personally.  I guess if I has committed a felony this would be better than 10 years in prison.  Just do what you're supposed to and be done.  I really hope you don't get time added. 

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Healer555 said:

As far as I know there's no getting out and keeping your license.  I don't have a SUD either and I think it's harder for those of us without a SUD.  The meetings are ridiculous for me personally.  I guess if I has committed a felony this would be better than 10 years in prison.  Just do what you're supposed to and be done.  I really hope you don't get time added. 

I have a friend with same marijuana use disorder and he was genuinely doing it everyday. He was in a rehab with me. He got out and then tested positive for peth although he claims he didn't consume anything and repeated tests were negative including nail testing but he was again asked to go to rehab and then he hired a lawyer who is handling his case since the last year and now he is working without monitoring for the last one year and as per his lawyer probably 95% chances are that board will eliminate PHP requirement for him at the end of this year. I spoke to the lawyer and he told me that definitely there are people who needs to be monitored but after listening to my details he said, there are many people who don't need monitoring and PHPs are overkilling them like you.He was even laughing what they did to me and told me that my case is very strong and he can let me out monitoring. There is not a 100% guarantee but he said I have handled many cases and more chances are that you can be out of monitoring requirements.

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I have also read his case reports online and he has helped so many people who have shared their experiences. He also told me that PHPs will keep you saying that there is no way out and will also scares you but there is conflict of interest involves as they get their funding from these rehabs. So do not trust their wording. He also told me that you should have contacted me at that time when they recommended you treatment, still it's not too late. He states that board will not take any harsh decisions without giving you a proper explanation time and that is where our roles come and we vigorously advocates on your behalf and try our best to settle down things with the board with least consequences as possible on your license and in most cases board takes this thing into account that you have spent so much effort and money for this career and hardly takes harsh decisions given that if have done something horribly wrong.

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sam90 said:

I have also read his case reports online and he has helped so many people who have shared their experiences. He also told me that PHPs will keep you saying that there is no way out and will also scares you but there is conflict of interest involves as they get their funding from these rehabs. So do not trust their wording. He also told me that you should have contacted me at that time when they recommended you treatment, still it's not too late. He states that board will not take any harsh decisions without giving you a proper explanation time and that is where our roles come and we vigorously advocates on your behalf and try our best to settle down things with the board with least consequences as possible on your license and in most cases board takes this thing into account that you have spent so much effort and money for this career and hardly takes harsh decisions given that if have done something horribly wrong.

What state are you in? I contacted a lawyer and he said I could either do the monitoring agreement, walk away no license or try to fight it to no avail 

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My case is now little complicated. I came to know about this info in the last few days and now I am regretting why I move from Fl. Now I have a pending license in another state. That lawyer is in Florida, his name is (MODERATOR EDIT OF NAME - PLEASE DO NOT POST IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ABOUT OTHERS). He is now recommending me that first wait for this license and I need to retain him and another lawyer from this state and then they can coordinate together. I am currently not working but once I start working then definitely I will do that. Even if Fl PRN evaluator mess up my this evaluation and recommend any sort of treatment, definitely I will retain him.

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sam90 said:

I consumed on 2 occasions one week apart. 4 drinks and 6 drinks almost a month ago from now. I have dye my hair and used detox shampoo. ETG has hydrophilic properties, so I have done a lot of multiple washings. Now lets see what it shows up.

Even if you didn't use detox shampoos, this is not enough alcohol drinking to cause a positive level on hair ETG.  Please let us know the result, but this is not enough for hair etg.  It is a very insensitive test.  

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Anyone knows, how many days USDTL takes to give the hair test results which includes ETG? 

I had hair tests before not including ETG and usually the turn around time was 1 week. This time, I dropped the sample last week on Friday and yet I have not received any result.

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Universe93B said:

 

Brother any feedback from you. You comments are very helpful always!

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sam90 said:

Anyone knows, how many days USDTL takes to give the hair test results which includes ETG? 

I had hair tests before not including ETG and usually the turn around time was 1 week. This time, I dropped the sample last week on Friday and yet I have not received any result.

I was actually wondering how things were going for you. Hope it's negative and also hope you can get out of the monitoring agreement 

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