Drug Addiction Detox
Author : Guest Poster Marla
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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?