The following tips may be helpful to you in getting your test results: 1  Give it time. 2  Let your doctor know who, what, when, where, and how. 3  Make an appointment. 4  Make it clear that you want to know the results â even if everythingâs OK. 5  Keep records.
What most people don't realize is that the majority of long-term, hard-core drug addicts are dying in their 40s and 50s. The latest studies show that the life expectancy of a drug addict is 15 to 20 years after they start being a drug addict. So what we see is a replenishment of the population, a new crop of addicts. There are no 90-year-old heroin addicts. Most of those we were recording 20 years ago have died.
Your physical health has tremendous influence on how long heroin stays in your system. Many heroin users engage in the dangerous behaviors of IV use, needle sharing, using contaminated needles, poor hygiene, unsafe sex, disregarding their health and safety.s the morphine continues to metabolize, the quarter-lifeâs decay curve is estimated about 12 hours, and after 18 hours an estimated 1/8 will remain and then 1/16 and so on and so on. Heroin contains several metabolites that can distinguish its use from morphine and other opioid drugs.