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Do-it-yourself detox continued
Before you make the decision
to detoxify, there are several questions that you should try to
answer for yourself:
Who are you stopping for? In order to succeed in your attempt to stop
using drugs, you have to genuinely want to stop. Not for your parents,
not for your wife, not for the court or the probation officer, but
for yourself. Of course, all those other people may play
a role in making you want to stop. If you are upsetting your parents,
if your wife is about to leave you, or you stand a good chance of
being sent to jail, that may well make you tired of using drugs.
However, for many people, it doesn't. If you aren't really sure about it,
perhaps you should think about other options.
Some people find it is easier if they attempt to stabilize their
drug use before giving up. If you feel that this may be a better option for
you, then talk it over with a friend or a drugs worker. If
you do attempt to stop using drugs before you really want to, you
may be setting yourself up to fail. After several failures, you may
lose confidence in your ability to succeed, which can lead you to stop trying.
So try to be clear about what it is that you really want, and if you
do want to continue using drugs,then focus on trying to reduce the
harm associated with your drug use. Drug use has both positive and negative aspects
to it. Everybody who uses drugs experiences both. People usually
only stop when they are aware that the negative aspects outweigh
the positive ones.
Some people are aware that the negative consequences
of their drug use are great, but are still unable to make the decision
to stop using drugs. This may be because the positive benefits that
they gain from using are even greater, or it maybe simply because
they haven't thought clearly enough about the consequences.
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