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 ...

Learn about drug and alcohol withdrawal, its symptoms, risks, and effective strategies for safe recovery in this ...

For many people struggling with alcohol dependence, the idea of recovery begins with one daunting step: withdrawal. Fear of ...

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.

Heavy alcohol use can lead to systemic inflammation, or prolonged inflammation throughout your entire body. Cutting out ...

Alcohol withdrawal differs from withdrawal from most other drugs because it can be fatal. The only drugs as likely to cause death from withdrawal are benzodiazepines. Heroin withdrawal rarely, if ever ...

A new study demonstrates how heavy alcohol use can cause long-term cognitive impairments, particularly affecting decision-making. The research, conducted in rats, shows that chronic alcohol exposure ...

Many surgeons recommend giving up smoking, alcohol, or drugs before surgery, but researchers have found this may also increase the need for pain medication.

One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is 'allodynia' -- increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, which is a clinical sign of chronic pain. In a new ...

VANCOUVER -- There's an urgent need to improve the treatment of severe alcohol withdrawal because too many patients are being admitted to hospital when they could be managed through outpatient ...

Alcoholism is a chronic and often progressive disease that includes problems on controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol, continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems, ...

Dry January, initiated by Alcohol Change UK, promotes abstaining from alcohol for the month of January, resulting in improved sleep, increased energy, and better skin health. Experts note that even ...