How to Treat the Symptoms of Alcohol Withdrawal

How to Treat the Symptoms of Alcohol Withdrawal – Watch more Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse videos: www.howcast.com Subscribe to Howcast’s YouTube Channel – howc.st Learn how to treat the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal by following this guide. Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: howc.st Subscribe to Howcast’s other YouTube Channels: Howcast Health Channel – howc.st Howcast Video Games Channel – howc.st Howcast Tech Channel – howc.st Howcast Food Channel – howc.st Howcast Arts & Recreation Channel – howc.st Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel – howc.st Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel – howc.st Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more. Step 1: Stop drinking Stop drinking. You can’t treat alcohol dependence while continuing to drink. Symptoms of withdrawal will appear between six and 48 hours after alcohol consumption has ceased. Step 2: Treat DTs Seek a doctor’s care to treat delerium tremens, or DTs, pharmacologically. Typically, benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat such symptoms as anxiety, insomnia, and seizures, and are the most commonly prescribed treatment for alcohol withdrawal. Step 3: Treat …

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Commission finds discrimination in inmate death

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(AP) — Law enforcement officers in two north-central Montana counties showed "discriminatory indifference" toward an 18-year-old inmate who died of acute alcohol withdrawal by failing to fill two prescriptions and administer the drugs meant to …
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Simulation lab gives nursing students taste of job

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KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Janie Woods trembled uncontrollably, sweat through her bed sheets and threw up on her nurses at Indiana University Kokomo as the mannequin battled alcohol withdrawal following knee surgery. "I didn't eat anything for breakfast …
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Oxytocin helps people with alcoholism beat cravings

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The oxytocin group had fewer alcohol cravings and milder withdrawal symptoms than the placebo group, and used just one-fifth of the lorazepam (Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, doi.org/jgp). "Four [oxytocin] volunteers didn't need any …
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