If you are an arresting or a detentions officer, and you believe that a subject is in or at risk for acute alcohol withdrawal, seek emergency medical treatment immediately. The consequences of ...

Not all studies have found positive results when clonidine is compared to other medications for acute alcohol withdrawal. Robinson et al. randomized 32 alcohol inpatients to clonidine 0.3–0.9 mg ...

This is known as post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS). For those with alcohol use disorder, withdrawal is just the first (but very important) step on a long journey to recovery. These first few ...

Additionally, benzodiazepines can lead to addiction, so doctors limit their use to the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal. Typically, it would involve only short-term use. Research compared the ...

7 Since alcohol withdrawal can be complicated ... Although no medications have shown efficacy in reducing the severity of withdrawal symptoms, acute stimulant toxicity characterized by delusions ...

This is a rare condition in which alcohol use disorder, acute alcohol intoxication, and alcohol withdrawal can cause symptoms of psychosis. Current research recognizes alcohol-related ...

People who chronically consume large amounts of alcohol are more likely to develop post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS), says Crystal Avery, a licensed substance abuse clinician in New Hampshire.

Protracted withdrawal from alcohol is well-recorded ... for morphine users usually start between 6 to 9 weeks after the acute withdrawal phase and persist until 26 to 30 weeks.

Starting oral or injectable naltrexone at hospital discharge reduced heavy drinking in patients with alcohol use disorder. The hospital is an opportune setting for identifying and treating ...

A nurse-led Alcohol Care Team has reduced emergency hospital admissions for patients presenting with acute alcohol withdrawal at an emergency department. This initiative won the Emergency and Critical ...

We performed an extensive English-language MEDLINE search (1966 to December 2010) to identify articles evaluating the efficacy and safety of α 2-agonists for alcohol withdrawal. Search terms ...