PRETOX Program
The Exit Strategy. Your gameplan before you quit.
For people who struggle to maintain sobriety post-detox and those who haven’t found success with typical recovery programs.
What’s Included in the Course:
✓ Get a clear action plan to prepare before beginning detox.
✓ Explore 7 lessons with worksheets, practical tools, and helpful resources.
✓ Learn to recognize the needs and patterns driving your substance use.
✓ Discover ways to meet those needs and cope with difficult emotions.
✓ Learn how to change your environment and find a supportive community.
A 7 step guide to rewiring you subconscious mind, healing your nervous system, and building a life that makes recovery from addiction feel easy.
Detox removes the drug. But what happens when you return to your life?
You can survive withdrawal and still be unprepared for sobriety.
You already know the substance is hurting you. You don’t need another lecture about the consequences or another person telling you to “just quit.”
The harder truth is that the drug is still doing something for you.
Maybe it gives you energy, confidence, motivation, relief, connection, or a temporary escape from a life that feels unbearable without it.
You can want to quit and still be terrified of who you’ll become—or how you’ll function—without it. That doesn’t make you weak. It means the drug has become one of the only solutions you have.
PreTox helps you begin building new solutions before you take that one away.
If the same triggers, relationships, exhaustion, emotional pain, and empty hours are waiting after detox, removing the drug can leave you with the same problems—and one less way to cope with them.
When relapse happens, people often assume they didn’t want recovery badly enough. But sometimes they were asked to give up their primary coping mechanism before they had built anything strong enough to replace it.
PreTox was created to help close that gap.
You don’t have to wait until detox to start recovering.
PreTox is the psychological and lifestyle preparation that happens before you quit—so you aren’t returning to the same life that made the drug feel necessary.
PreTox may be for you if…
PreTox is a seven-step, self-paced course for people who want to prepare mentally, emotionally, physically, and practically for life after detox.
Instead of asking only, “How do I force myself to stop?” you’ll explore:
✓ What is the substance currently doing for me?
✓ What triggers the urge to use?
✓ What am I afraid will happen if I become sober?
✓ What would need to change for sobriety to feel livable?
✓ What could meet my needs without creating the same consequences?
✓ How can I begin practicing those alternatives now?
The goal is not to pretend quitting will be easy. It is to stop entering detox emotionally blind, practically unprepared, and expected to rebuild your entire life while your body and mind are already under enormous stress.
PreTox is for the person thinking:
“I want to quit. I just don’t know how I’m supposed to live my actual life without it.”
This isn’t another lecture about why you should quit.
It’s a plan for how to begin becoming ready.
✓ You want to quit, but you’re afraid you’ll hate your life sober.
✓ You have detoxed before and struggled to stay clean afterward.
✓ You keep postponing detox because life feels impossible to manage without the drug.
✓ You’re afraid of losing your motivation, confidence, creativity, social skills, or spark.
✓ You’re tired of white-knuckling cravings without understanding what drives them.
✓ You want a flexible approach that isn’t tied to one religion, identity, or rigid recovery path.
What if the drug isn’t the real problem?
That doesn’t mean the drug isn’t causing real harm. It means the substance may also be the visible solution to a deeper problem.
You may be using to escape emotional pain, survive exhaustion, tolerate your environment, connect with people, feel pleasure, manage withdrawal, or become a version of yourself you like better.
If those needs remain ignored, removing the substance can leave an enormous empty space.
PreTox helps you understand that space and begin filling it with realistic tools, boundaries, routines, relationships, systems, and sources of relief that don’t demand the same price from your life.
Only $44. Get a gameplan for before you quit.
Release shame
Reframe addiction as a coping mechanism that developed for a reason—not proof that you are weak, selfish, or broken. Less shame makes honesty and change possible.
Step 1
Step 2
Take notice
Track when you use, what happens before the urge, what the substance provides, and how you feel afterward. Identify emotional, physical, mental, social, and environmental triggers.
Step 3
Find solutions
Explore realistic alternatives for pleasure, stimulation, emotional release, nervous-system regulation, connection, and relief—based on your actual personality, energy, resources, and life.
Step 4
Set up systems
Turn helpful ideas into personalized response plans for cravings, overwhelm, boredom, conflict, exhaustion, physical discomfort, and impulsive moments.
Step 7
Prepare for detox
Bring everything together into a personal exit strategy, including your support needs, environment, responsibilities, known triggers, early recovery protections, and questions about choosing an appropriate detox setting.
Step 5
Address physical concerns
Notice which symptoms—such as anxiety, pain, insomnia, exhaustion, brain fog, or hormonal changes—lead to use, and organize your observations to discuss with an appropriate healthcare professional.
Step 6
Change your environment
Examine the routines, spaces, relationships, and daily conditions that keep creating the need to escape. Begin making life safer, more supportive, and more worth returning to.
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By the end of PreTox you can have…
✓ A clearer understanding of why you use and what triggers you
✓ Less shame around the coping mechanisms you developed
✓ Personalized alternatives for meeting the needs beneath substance use
✓ Response plans for cravings, overwhelm, exhaustion, and vulnerable moments
✓ Clearer boundaries and ideas for changing destabilizing environments
✓ A realistic plan for rebuilding pleasure, connection, and identity
✓ A personal exit strategy designed around your actual life
PreTox cannot guarantee sobriety or eliminate every craving. It can help you stop treating detox like the finish line and begin preparing for the life waiting on the other side.
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I created what I wish I had before detox.
At 22, I was homeless, deeply codependent, and addicted to heroin.
The drug was destroying my life—but it was also helping me survive emotions, shame, pain, and circumstances I didn’t know how to handle without it.
I learned that removing a substance does not automatically remove the reasons someone needed it. The recovery attempt that changed my life began before detox, when I started working on the life beneath my addiction through emotional awareness, subconscious work, healthier relationships, new interests, and changes to my environment.
My recovery was not perfectly linear. Years later, I became dependent on kratom during an intensely stressful period and used this same process to successfully detox and recover within a year.
I am not a doctor, therapist, or licensed addiction-treatment provider. I created PreTox from lived experience: addiction, relapse, withdrawal, shame, and the fear that sober life would never feel as good.
This is the course I wish someone had given me before I tried to remove the substances I was using to survive.
Healing can begin before detox.
Only $44. Get started today.
Only $44. Get started today.
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Join now for only $44.
PreTox is currently available for a one-time payment of $44.
Your purchase includes:
✓ The complete seven-step self-paced course
✓ Step-by-step guides
✓ Worksheets and tracking tools
✓ Actionable preparation plans
✓ Emotional-awareness resources
✓ Nervous-system and somatic practices
✓ Environmental and lifestyle exercises
✓ Detox-preparation resources
✓ Lifetime access to the purchased course
✓ Access to future PreTox content added to the course, including planned videos, resources, and bonus guides
There is no required completion schedule.
You can move through the material at the pace your life, health, and capacity allow.
The current $44 price is an early price and may increase as new material is added. If you purchase at $44, you keep access without paying the future enrollment price.
One payment. No payment plan. All sales are final.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be sober before starting PreTox?
No. PreTox was specifically created to help people begin preparing before detox. It may also be useful for someone who is tapering under professional care, planning treatment, postponing detox, or already in recovery and creating a plan for vulnerable moments.
PreTox does not tell participants how to taper or stop using.
Is this only for opioid addiction?
No. Although the creator’s primary lived experience includes heroin, Suboxone, kratom, and methamphetamine, the course focuses on patterns that may appear across different forms of substance dependence.
The medical risks and treatment needs associated with different substances vary significantly. Participants should seek substance-specific guidance from a qualified healthcare professional.
Will PreTox help me detox at home?
PreTox can help you think through emotional, environmental, and practical preparation, but it does not determine whether home detox is safe.
It does not provide individualized withdrawal protocols, tapering schedules, medication instructions, or medical supervision.
Do I have to attend AA or NA?
No. PreTox does not require participation in a particular fellowship, religion, spiritual belief system, or recovery identity.
Participants are encouraged to build appropriate support, but that support may look different for different people.
Does PreTox promote a specific medication or treatment path?
No. PreTox does not prescribe medication or decide which medical treatment someone should pursue. Those decisions belong between the participant and an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
What if I have already relapsed multiple times?
PreTox was created with that experience in mind.
Previous relapse does not prove that change is impossible. It may reveal areas where more preparation, support, environmental change, medical care, or different tools are needed.
Is there a time limit?
No. PreTox is self-paced, and there is no required completion timeline.
Is there a refund policy?
Because PreTox is a digital course with immediate access to its materials, purchases are final and nonrefundable.
Who should not use PreTox?
PreTox is for adults aged 18 and older who can independently read, understand, and work through the material.
It is not appropriate as the primary resource for someone who is medically unstable, severely incapacitated, experiencing an overdose, at immediate risk of harming themselves or someone else, or experiencing potentially dangerous withdrawal symptoms.
Emergency situations require immediate professional help.
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You don’t have to prove you’re ready by suffering first.
You don’t have to pretend you hate everything the drug does for you.
You don’t have to enter detox with nothing but fear, willpower, and another promise that this time will be different.
You can begin releasing shame, building alternatives, changing your environment, and creating a life that no longer requires the drug to make it bearable.
You do not have to wait until detox to start recovering.
Get a gameplan for before you detox.
Important safety notice
PreTox is an educational self-help course based primarily on lived experience. It is not medical or mental-health treatment and does not provide diagnosis, individualized treatment, medical detoxification, medication management, or emergency services.
Do not stop or change a substance or medication based solely on this course. Withdrawal from certain substances can cause serious or life-threatening complications and may require medical supervision.
If you believe you may be experiencing an overdose, dangerous withdrawal, suicidal thoughts, a medical emergency, or an immediate risk of harm, contact emergency services immediately. In the United States, call 911 for an emergency or call or text 988 for crisis support.
Participation in PreTox does not guarantee detox completion, abstinence, recovery, or prevention of relapse. Individual experiences and outcomes vary.