Getting Clean
In addiction treatment circles they say "Change your people, your places and your things." I have heard people talk about that as a means to break bad habits, as if it's just some mental groove you get into.
In my experience, it is a paradigm that works well for resolving health issues but probably not for the reasons that most people seem to think it works. It helps break the cycle of sickness by making sure you aren't continuing to be re-exposed to the same germs and harmful chemicals.
If you have been using a drug -- whether prescription, OTC or illicit -- for a long time, it will take more effort than the initial "quitting" to really be rid of it. Especially if it was smoked or nebulized, after the initial crisis is over, you will want to start cleaning everything that could still have drug residues on it.
If you were smoking it in your home, most people have closets and drawers full of stuff they hardly ever look at anymore. "When in doubt, throw it out" is a good practice for trying to make sure you get clean of the drug in question and don't go back to it.
Whatever you can simply toss, excellent! And then start washing everything else. Do all kinds of laundry, shampoo or replace rugs, wipe down hard surfaces, etc.
You are a product of your environment and one of the flaws with the way medicine is practiced currently is it kind of overlooks that fact. It acts like your health issues begin and end with your body, as if you exist separately from the environment in which you live.
That's a big fat nope.
In my experience, it is a paradigm that works well for resolving health issues but probably not for the reasons that most people seem to think it works. It helps break the cycle of sickness by making sure you aren't continuing to be re-exposed to the same germs and harmful chemicals.
If you have been using a drug -- whether prescription, OTC or illicit -- for a long time, it will take more effort than the initial "quitting" to really be rid of it. Especially if it was smoked or nebulized, after the initial crisis is over, you will want to start cleaning everything that could still have drug residues on it.
If you were smoking it in your home, most people have closets and drawers full of stuff they hardly ever look at anymore. "When in doubt, throw it out" is a good practice for trying to make sure you get clean of the drug in question and don't go back to it.
Whatever you can simply toss, excellent! And then start washing everything else. Do all kinds of laundry, shampoo or replace rugs, wipe down hard surfaces, etc.
You are a product of your environment and one of the flaws with the way medicine is practiced currently is it kind of overlooks that fact. It acts like your health issues begin and end with your body, as if you exist separately from the environment in which you live.
That's a big fat nope.
