Key Takeaways Alcohol significantly impacts health, contributing to poor sleep, mood symptoms, high blood pressure and heart ...

A shaky hand, a racing heart, a wave of dread; alcohol withdrawal can feel like your body has turned against you. For many ...

What Happens to Your Body During the Stages of Detox and How to Manage It Medically reviewed by Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, MD, DPhil Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal and may require medical supervision.

Thinking about giving up drinking for a brief period of time? Here are the mental and physical changes you can expect.

The substances abused must be determined early in treatment, because there are substantial differences in severe complications and in the management of withdrawal from alcohol and sedatives, opiates, ...

Dr. Evan Singleton warns that difficulty in controlling alcohol use can be a sign of Alcohol Use Disorder, which is a ...

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This is the fourth installment in a series of posts on non-pharmacologic approaches to alcohol and drug abuse. Previous posts reviewed the evidence for weak electrical current for reducing symptoms of ...

You don’t need me to tell you the damage alcohol abuse has on individuals, families, and communities. The statistics speak for themselves. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and ...

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 ...

If you are a daily drinker you may feel a bit worse to start with while your body adjusts to not having alcohol in its system ...