Get clean, so to speak

Usage examples of detox.

New Age psychobabblers back at your Detox, I fear that very little, beyond the minimum needed for basic tasks, remains of your brain.

Most of our wards are open - the typical stuff: acting-out adolescents, depressives past the high-risk period, anorexics, minor manics, Alzheimer's, cokeheads, and alkies on detox.

I let detoxing smack addicts crash on my floor while I boogied to late dates at Hot Tub Fever.

Too bad that she discovered a minor leak in the detox input filter line, and had to file a report on the very tech who'd been defending her.

As a mercenary in the employ of Humphries Space Systems he had been detoxed several times, only to fall back into his habit time and again.

I've had her detoxed three—no, four times, and she went right back onto them, pregnant or not.

It was one reason he'd even been able to stick out his nine residential months here with twenty-one other newly detoxed housebreakers, hoods, whores, fired execs, Avon ladies, subway musicians, beer-bloated construction workers, vagrants, indignant car salesmen, bulimic trauma-mamas, bunko artists, mincing pillow-biters, North End hard guys, pimply kids with electric noserings, denial-ridden housewives and etc.

Of course the tiger in question was no glittering savage of the rain forest or the tundra: it seemed detoxed or pre-tamed, displaced from its very phylum, and burdened with its camouflage gearits worn sun-and-dust yellow, ridged with shadow.

The intervening three months had been spent in a prison's hospital wing, where tough medics had thoroughly detoxed him, at the same time pushing him through an intensive health regimen.

All in all, they didn't fit the image of a couple of detoxing wackos.

So, my opinion, it was severe alcohol poisoning and he got detoxed.