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To Thejenius77
Hi. I am not an expert by any means (yet). But for what it's worth, I would bleach and redye. Then I would bleach and redye again (on a different day?). Some people might recommend a third cycle of bleach/redye if you were a heavy user. Each cycle MAY get rid of 60% or more of the drugs and metabolites that existed immediately prior to that cycle (???). Your goal is to get below the detection threshold. I assume that you have metabolites in your hairs roots. Make sure that the redye formula has both hydrogen peroxide and ammonia. It goes without saying, you also want as much clean-time as possible prior to your test, so I wouldn't smoke any more until you get the test results back. You want your blood to be nice and clean (so that new hair grows clean) and your sweat and oils to be clean (so that it doesn't get incorporated into your hair in your pores or externally). I wouldn't even hang around people who are using drugs until you get your results back, and are sure you wont need a retest.
Also, some studies would imply that the previously bleached portions of your hair may be more susceptable than usual to absorbing external contamination, such as the smoke you have encountered since your bleachings.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I would also buy a new hairbrush, wash all of your towels, and wash your pillow cases, etc. You want EVERYTHING that touches your hair to be clean once you start the treatments.
External contamination can be a real problem, even though the labs claim that they wash-off all external contaminnation. I think I saw a study where drug-free hair absorbed drug metabolites from contaminated sweat. The drugs became incorporated into the hair to such an extent that some of it remained in the hair even after it was supposedly decontaminated. (You could argue that external contamination from drug smoke is chemically different from the metabolites produced by your liver when the drug is in your system, and that therefore the lab could differentiate external contamination from your own usage, but I wouldn't take a chance.)
Maybe this is overkill, but if you can handle it and you understand the risks of working with these chemicals, I would go for two cycles of bleach and redye.
There are other potential methods too (such as Idavisa's) which I am still researching and trying to understand.
Rob
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