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

Alcohol withdrawal can be managed safely with the right approach. By recognising symptoms early, seeking medical help, and ...

Based on literature reviewed here, the primary role for clonidine and dexmedetomidine is as adjunctive treatment to benzodiazepines, the standard of care in alcohol withdrawal. The purpose of this ...

Pharmacologic treatment is effective and underused ... are needed to produce the same effect (alcohol tolerance), and alcohol withdrawal syndrome emerges when high levels of consumption are ...

What Happens to Your Body During the Stages of Detox and How to Manage It Medically reviewed by Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, MD, ...

I witnessed the tragic realities behind Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's plea. Alcohol has caused 20,000 annually to die of ...

The newest treatment for AUD, acamprosate (Campral) was developed in France. The FDA approved the drug for abstinence ...

Buprenorphine treatment does not require hospitalization ... of the last drink and peak over the course of 24-48 hours. Alcohol withdrawal poses a risk of seizures 6 hours to 48 hours after ...

Sustained funding is needed for screening and care, but industry must also shoulder costs Alcohol is widely available and drunk by around 80% of adults in the UK. No safe level of alcohol consumption ...

In rare and severe cases of alcohol withdrawal, one NHS trust is prescribing alcohol to treat patients. A specialised team at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust prescribes carefully ...

The UK needs an overarching national strategy to tackle alcohol related harms, argue experts in The BMJ today, as deaths from alcohol in England reach their highest level on record.

The earliest studies of clonidine in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal were limited by the use of concomitant medications. Bjorkqvist et al. evaluated the efficacy of a clonidine taper ...