alcohol withdrawal
Quitting drinking symptoms
Alcohol withdrawal is the set of symptoms that occur when someone who has been drinking heavily stops or significantly reduces their alcohol intake.
Symptoms range from mild—anxiety, tremors, sweating, nausea—to severe and potentially fatal, including seizures and delirium tremens.
The body, having adapted to alcohol's depressant effects, becomes hyperexcitable without it.
He was hospitalized for alcohol withdrawal after quitting cold turkey.
- shakingRapid involuntary movement
- detoxificationRemoving harmful substances internally
- sweatingMoisture through pores
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- benzodiazepinesSedative-hypnotic drug class
heavy drinking · tachycardia · hallucinations · depression · seizures · kindling · nausea · tremors · delirium tremens · cravings · white knuckle · irritability · hypertension · vomiting · thiamine · medical detox · hydration therapy · diazepam
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- Alcohol Awarenessalcoholism, underage drinking, teen drinking, drinking age, legal drinking age
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- withdrawalwithdrawing, cash out, distancing, retreating, disconnection
alcohol withdrawalalcohol intoxication
Bodily impairment from drinking
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