Detoxification (disambiguation)

Detoxification is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including, but not limited to, the human body.

Detoxification, detoxication or detox may also refer to:

Medicine and science

• Alcohol detoxification is the medical treatment for alcohol dependence through the abrupt cessation of alcohol intake, often coupled with substitution of cross-tolerant drugs that have effects similar that of alcohol so as to prevent alcohol withdrawal
• Drug detoxification is the intervention in a case of physical dependence to a drug; the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome; and any of various treatments for acute drug overdose
• Heavy metal detoxification is the removal of metallic toxic substances from the body
• Chelation therapy, a from of heavy metal detoxification, is a medical technique involving the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body
• Drug metabolism, xenobiotic metabolism or xenobiotic detoxification is the process of metabolising a toxic substance into a less toxic or more easily excreted substance within a biological organism
• Environmental remediation, detoxification of environmental pollutants, is the breaking down, removal and/or cleansing of toxic substances form the environment such as after soil or water contamination.
• Detoxification (alternative medicine) is the use of diets, fasting, saunas and enemas to assist the body's detoxification

Popular culture

• Detox, the working title for Dr. Dre's album Compton
• Detox (Treble Charger album), a 2002 album released by Treble Charger
• "Detox" (song), a 2008 song by punk rock band Millencolin
• "Detox", a song released in 1997 by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad
• "Detox" (House), a 2005 episode of the medical drama House
• Detox Icunt (born 1985), American drag queen and reality television personality

See also

• D-Tox, a 2002 film starring Sylvester Stallone