Detox Drinks: Do They Really Work?

Popping up on convenient store and gas-station shelves in lots of places, flavored drinks that guarentee to rid the body of toxins in just one hour are becoming widely popular with young people who hope to get a job or pass a drug test but who first must get "clean" to do so. The drinks come in a variety of easy-on-the-taste-bud flavors such as grape and fruit punch, and, utiizing brightly-colored words painted boldly on the labels, scream 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. The guarantee may seem convicing enough, but some drinks especially the cheaper kind aren't so promising.

I am not saying all drinks claiming to ensure a passing drug test do not work, but I have tried a few different products of the same type and will support only one brand's guarantee. The drink I used I believe is still around today. It goes by the name, "The Liquid Stuff", and I payed nearly $50 for it at a GNC vitamin shop. Using the drink as directed on the label, which calls for the consumption of greater than usual amounts of water, I took my drug test and passed. I passed using TLS but my luck was not so great with other brands.

Several years later I came across other brands of the product appearing in gas stations around my hometown. It made a lot of sense if i was going to put money into these drinks to buy one that was cheaper and that I didn't have to make a stop by the mall to purchase from a GNC. What seemed like a logical decision turned out to be anything but. I bought a drink for $15 at a gas station and I got what I payed for, saving money only to fail my drug test. Pinching pennies I learned was not the way to go for the sake of taking a drug test. Besides, in order to see reimbursement for the money I wasted meant digging through the bottem of a trash can to salvage the companies proof-of-purchase. I didn't want to waste anymore time mailing it to a company just for $15 that I might never see.

In the end, I decided that relying on drinks offering peace of mind and money back was not for me. Companies probably just see the success of another company, get into the business themselves bottling water and food coloring with minimal scientic foundation, and make money off the claim that their drink works wonders, or your money back.