Persons who are laboring under the burden of drug or alcohol use, abuse, dependency, or even addiction may be discouraged from making healthy changes in their lives because of the daunting task of ridding their systems of their substance of choice. There is no doubt that eliminating a foreign substance from the body is a difficult and sometimes even painful process, even if the substance is an unhealthy one. The early stages of sobriety are known by the name of the substance, and the process of removing it from the body. For example