medical detox
Clinical substance purging
Medical detox is supervised withdrawal from drugs or alcohol under professional care, typically in a hospital or specialized facility.
Medications manage dangerous symptoms like seizures, tremors, or severe anxiety that can accompany abrupt cessation of certain substances.
After years of heavy drinking, he needed medical detox before starting rehab.
Distinguished from social detox, which provides monitoring but not medication.
- alcohol withdrawalSymptoms from stopping drinking
- withdrawal symptomsEffects of stopping dependence
- drug dependenceCompulsive substance reliance
- symptom reliefLessening disease's felt effects
- outpatient clinicMedical facility without hospitalization
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