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Let’s face it; any way you look at it detoxing is not an easy thing to do. Whether you’re coming off cigarettes, sugar, alcohol or crack who wants to do go through the intense cravings, the sweaty nights of lying awake, chills or the flu-like symptoms that can make you want to crawl up in a hole and die? I have experienced all of the above and really hope I never have to go through it again.
In the early nineties when I got clean and sober, after having used for years, it took a while for the fog to lift. However, when it finally did, I had a profound realization that was crystal clear, ‘I wanted to help other addicts and alcoholics get clean as well’. After taking a series of required courses I got a job as a counselor in a local detox center at Brotman Hospital.