Withdrawal

Study details premature deaths after excessive alcohol use pre-pandemic, especially in the young. One out of every eight deaths in Americans ages 20 to 64 resulted from drinking too much alcohol, according to a U.S. population-based study. Nationally, 12.9% of total deaths per year among adults in this age group were attributed to excessive alcohol […]

Withdrawal is a constellation of aversive symptoms—ranging from anxiety, tremors (“the shakes”), and nausea to hallucinations and frank seizures—brought on by the sudden stoppage or dosage drop of long-term drug use. It is the clinical manifestation of abrupt cessation of a substance of abuse. Symptoms vary in severity and duration depending on the substance, how