Positive

• Drugs make you feel good.
• Drug use helps you gain acceptance among friends
• Drugs give you something to do
• Everybody you know uses drugs
• Drugs make you feel more confident
• Drug use makes you feel free to be who you want to.

Negative

• Drugs may be bad for your health
• Drug use may upset your family and friends
• Drug use can get in the way of the other things that you want to do
• Drug use is against the law Continued drug use can damage your self-image
• Dependence upon drugs can negatively shape the way that you see yourself

Before you decide to give up, make a list of the positive and negative aspects of your own relationship with drugs. Then you can see whether or not you think stopping would be a good idea.

What drugs are you using?
Just as different drugs have different effects, so the attempt to stop using various drugs has very different results. Make a list of the drugs that you are currently using and try to think about which ones might be causing you a problem.
Remember, you can lie to parents, employers, teachers, partners and friends, you can even lie to yourself ; but given that you are only doing this detox because you want to, what would be the point?

Some drugs are quite definitely addictive. This means that when you attempt to stop using them, you might experience physical withdrawal symptoms as well as psychological craving.
The drugs that fall into this category include Opiates like Heroin and Methadone, Benzodiazepine like Valium, Temazepam.