Detoxification is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including the human body.
Detoxification, detoxication or detox may also refer to:
Medicine and science
- Alcohol detoxification, medical treatment for alcohol dependence through the abrupt cessation
- Drug detoxification, any of various treatments for drug abuse or overdose
- Heavy metal detoxification, removal of toxic heavy metals from the body
- Chelation therapy, a form of heavy metal detoxification involving the administration of chelating agents
- Drug metabolism, the process of metabolising and excreting a toxic substance into frp, a biological organism
- Environmental remediation, removal of pollutants from the environment
- Detoxification (alternative medicine), unscientific treatments purported to remove unspecified "toxins" from the body
Technology
- Digital detox is a period of time when an individual refrains from using electronic connecting devices such as smartphones and computers.
Popular culture
- Detox (Treble Charger album), a 2002 album by Treble Charger
- Detox, a 2020 album by Natalie Pérez
- "Detox" (song), a 2022 song by American rapper Lil Baby
- Detox, an unreleased album by Dr. Dre
- "Detox", a 2008 song by Millencolin
- "Detox", a 1997 song by Strapping Young Lad
- "Detox" (House), a 2005 episode of the medical drama House
- Detox Icunt, an American drag queen
See also
- D-Tox, a 2002 American psychological thriller horror film directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Sylvester Stallone.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Detoxification.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: