Despite what efforts to legalize and today's culture wants you to believe, it's a verified and conclusive proven fact that marijuana can be an addictive drug which may cause both short and long-term physical and psychological injury to users. Similar to other substances, a person who has used marijuana for a prolonged period of time will become dependent on its effects and may experience withdrawal symptoms should they abruptly stop using marijuana. Users today have extremely high grade marijuana available which wasn't the situation 10-20 years ago, which makes it a much larger issue.

Someone that uses marijuana on a regular basis is significantly changing the way the brain functions, and so the brain can't just automatically return to normal function when the person stops using marijuana, this can take time. Individuals actually detox from marijuana, like any other drug, as the drug is eliminated from your body and the body readjusts to function without marijuana. So marijuana detox can be quite a challenge for habitual users, because users will encounter withdrawal symptoms which can be difficult to endure. These symptoms might not be as physical in nature as heroin withdrawal for example, but marijuana detox and withdrawal can cause severe depression along with other psychological symptoms for long-term users. That is why relapse is so common for many who attempt to cease using marijuana on their own. Marijuana detox services are available at drug and alcohol detox and drug and alcohol treatment facilities in Fairview Heights to help people through this process so that they don't relapse and may obtain further treatment services following detox.