It can take several days to as long as a year to get substances of abuse out of the body, but this is the first step in recovering from alcoholism or drug addiction. The hard part is if you have been abusing drugs or alcohol for an extended period of time, your body has probably become dependent upon it. It has become almost as vital to your body as water, food or even oxygen.
As your body flushes the poison out through sweating, urination, and even breathing, physical symptoms like "the sh...