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There are a lot of websites out there who will tell you how to detox off drugs quickly. There are websites to show you how to beat a drug test. There are even sites devoted to home detoxing. This site is none of those things. For me it is all about recovery. It’s about sobriety — living a clean, healthy, meaningful life. You can’t do that if you are high, strung out or in between. You have to get clean, stay clean and learn to love it. When you crave sobriety in the same way you used to crave alcohol or heroin, then you are living recovery.

The first step to living that sort of life style is getting detoxed. You have to flush the drugs from your system before you can see your way to learning to live clean and sober, right? Don’t think of it as “detox”, think of it as drug addiction detox. You are detoxing from the addiction. Choosing to do a drug rehab detox is smart. You want trained professionals there to help you through this journey.

Doing the drug detox away from home, out in the world where it is visible is an important part of the recovery. You have to be open and honest about your addiction. You cannot hide the recovery like you hid your using. That makes sense right? Part of addiction help is owning it. It’s not like you need to put up a billboard or anything, but the people in your life need to know what’s happening because it is happening to them, too.

Once the drugs are out of your system, once the physical detoxification is done, the real work can begin. This is where you learn to live life in a different way. You will spend time in rehab and with family counselors learning coping skills and communication techniques. As you know a lot of addictions begin as coping issues. Another part of the detox is shedding old routines and, sadly, old friends. The people you knew when you were using can’t be in your life anymore. This is one of the harder things about recovery — replacing the social network of your old life with a new set of friends and activities. It depends on how deep down you were before, but for some people their whole lives revolved around getting and using. If that’s not there anymore, what is going to replace it?

Are You Addicted to Marijuana?

Do you ever wonder if your desire to smoke marijuana and get high regularly could be considered something of an addiction?

The entire topic of marijuana addiction is shrouded in smoke (no pun intended). Studies show that the addictive properties of other drugs – well known hard drugs such as cocaine, meth, speed along with popular legal drugs such as caffeine and alcohol – are far more addictive than marijuana.

But does addiction work the same way?

I think not.

I find that marijuana can be very addictive – and here’s the kicker where everyone rolls their eyes, get ready for it! But weed can be addictive not necessarily physically but psychologically.

Now I almost hate to put it in those words because there’s this weird bias where if something is psychologically addictive, people react like it’s no big deal. “Oh, well yea- of course it could be addictive in a psychological way, as if that doesn’t mean it’s not still an addiction. What the heck?

Having an addiction, whether mental or physical, is still an addiction, and it still bears the same problems that come about when there’s an addiction in someone’s life.

If you think you are addicted, one good litmus test is trying to stop smoking weed. Are you able to? What happens when you try to quit smoking marijuana? Do you kinda of freak out mentally? Or is it no big deal?

I think if the thought of quitting makes someone secretly a little bit panicked, then they should try it and see what happens. I know for me that quitting after smoking about every day for a year led to insomnia for about a week. That was it. But others who have smoked for years or decades report for worse marijuana withdrawal experiences, akin to a “real” physical drug addiction like the kind most people think of when they imagine someone going through detox. If you think you may be addicted, it may be worth it to try kicking the habit once and for all.