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2. It's hard to stop at 1 drink. Here's why — and how to cut ...

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   So before you stop cold turkey, it’s important to speak with your health care provider about whether you should get help at an outpatient or inpatient facility or hospital that treats alcohol ...

3. What Really Happens to Your Body a Week After You Stop Drinking

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   If you’re drinking more than seven drinks a week for a woman or 14 for a man, especially for extended periods of time, consider talking to a doctor first before stopping cold turkey.

4. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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   To help to prevent Wernicke syndrome, these individuals should be administered a multivitamin preparation with sufficient quantities of thiamine and folic acid. During alcohol withdrawal, the prophylactic administration of thiamine, folic acid, and pyridoxine intravenously is recommended before starting any carbohydrate-containing fluids or food.

5. Cold turkey - Wikipedia

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   Sudden withdrawal from drugs such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates can be extremely dangerous, leading to potentially fatal seizures. For long-term alcoholics, going cold turkey can cause life-threatening delirium tremens. [1] In the case of opioid withdrawal, going "cold turkey" is extremely unpleasant but less dangerous.

6. Alcohol is not good for us. 5 tips to stay safe(r) if you drink

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   Alcohol is used as a social lubricant, maybe more so as holiday festivities approach. But drinking carries health and other risks. Here are five tips to make it safer.

7. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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   The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

8. Drug withdrawal - Wikipedia

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   The term "cold turkey" is used to describe the sudden cessation of use of a substance and the ensuing physiologic manifestations. The symptoms from withdrawal may be even more dramatic when the drug has masked prolonged malnutrition , disease, chronic pain , infections (common in intravenous drug use), or sleep deprivation , conditions that ...

9. 6 ways your brain and body benefit when you stop drinking alcohol

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   But even one drink a day, considered moderate drinking, increases your risk for certain types of cancer. What's more, alcohol contributes to more than 200 diseases, including in the liver ...