Hey Jade5,
Cocaine itself is very rapidly metabolized by the body. Therefore it is not cocaine that is detected, but a metabolic by-product. It stays in the system 'bout 3 days. Here's a live link that itself has alot of live links, some on testing. Good luck.

http://cocaine.org/index.html

Most coke is being cut with meth today. Taking this child for a drug test the momment you suspect they are using would show up in a urine test. As MiMoMo said, 3 days is about the time it takes to leave the body. I have taken my child directly to the emergency room & insisted on a urine test. She failed the test. I am sorry you have to go through this. I know how painful it is to see a loved one take this path.

Okay MiMoMo who are you REALLY!
I am awed by your info....being the intellecy that I am ....if you turn down a cup of tea wll...I will just have to show up at your door step...............stalking LOLOL

It isn't the child herself doing the drug. I have full and perment guardianship of my 7 year old grand daughter do to her mom's meth addiction. The child goes every other weeknd to her mom's (court order) she past a few drug test and hair test. But I am supecting her using again. It took us almost 5 years to prove she was using to began with and the hell she put this little one through during that time. We have had her 3 years and are still dealing with the trama.
I will check out this site this evening.
But I have heard that she has learnt how to strip her hair and pass a hair test. I have noticed her hair before she goes for a hair test how it looks frizzy and normal it is not. So it makes me think she may be using something to strip it.
This child has went through so much in her life I don't want to see her be tramatized any furhter.

Hey again there, Ms Jade,

Here's another link that deals primarily with testing:

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/testing/testing_info1.shtml

We have an Indian casino here that is really hard line when it comes to drug testing. They test with hair and if they don't find a sufficient sample on your head, they are not shy and will demand to yank some hair from any other parts of your body! Sweat, saliva and urine can all be tested. Also, the eyes pupil response can be used for detection. Bless you for taking good care of baby! Hopefully, baby's MoM will wise up in this lifetime...

I went to the last site you sent me, have you went on it??????????????
There was,t much of anything helpful unless I was a user and wanted to learn how to make it and where to get it and what all I needed to make it. It tells from how much of this or that to buy at a time and how to take things apart to put the drug in like an inhaler etc. I was appauld. But i will try the other one you sent.

and how do you propose I get her saliva. Because she isn't going to let me test her no matter how nicely I would ask.

Call the person already doing the drug tests and tell them your suspicions. They'll probally be able to keep it anonymous and maybe they'll do multiple tests(not just hair). Switching it up between hair, saliva, and urine will really throw her off and I doubt she'll get away for long. Saliva is used by the state I'm in and I heard it's unbeatable. I have no personal experience to back this claim up.

If a drug test is done it would be a court order. That is the only way I have ever gotten her to do one.
Now she has past the last couple of hair test.
The hair test will only show anything after atleast 7 days after using and up to 90 days of use.
The salvia I guess is only for 3 days after useing.
She went to beauty school and from what I understand she is using a stripper on her hair before her hair test. From the looks of her hair at the time of the test I would say she used stripper many times before the test. Now for awhile I don't think she was using at all. (a few months)
We requested a 10 panel hair test the last time, but found out the person who told us about this test didn't know what they were talking about. there is a 10 panel urine test. Hair test is 150.00 and 10panel is 40.00.
Anyway she did the hiar test but did not do the 10 panel. When it was all said and done the test came back neg., but had someone elses name on it. Never have got that cleared up. Just guessing it was not her that took the test.

I know for myself when I was a chronic user (every day-all day), Coke stayed in my system for two weeks. I know this cause I was sweating it when I worked for the bank and my number came up for random drug testing.

When I ran a sober living home, the dip(urine) test is not all that accurate, the hair test goes back 90 days to 6 months, the swab test can go back 14 days to 30 days. I know this because I worked very closely with probation as I was working off my own probation.

I hope this helps.