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Treatment for withdrawal usually involves weaning over a 3- to 21-day period if the infusion lasted for more than a week. [134] Symptoms include tremors, agitation, sleeplessness, inconsolable crying, diarrhea and sweating. In total, over fifty withdrawal symptoms are listed in this review article.
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 drug abusers often develop as a secondary consequence of the drug. When the drug is removed, these conditions may resurface and be ...
Some of the symptoms that could possibly occur as a result of a withdrawal from benzodiazepines after long-term use include emotional clouding, [1] flu-like symptoms, [5] suicide, [11] nausea, headaches, dizziness, irritability, lethargy, sleep problems, memory impairment, personality changes, aggression, depression, social deterioration as ...
Recent research (Nixon & Vendelø, 2016) shows that General Practitioners (GPs) who actively consider discontinuation, are reluctant to do so, as they experience that the safest decision is to continue prescriptions, rather than discontinue them. In part this is due to the ambiguity about the appropriateness of discontinuing medication.
Low- or normal-dose dependence was not suspected until the 1970s, and it was not until the early 1980s that it was confirmed. [69] [70] Low-dose dependence has now been clearly demonstrated in both animal studies and human studies, [71] [72] and is a recognized clinical disadvantage of benzodiazepines. Severe withdrawal syndromes can occur from ...
When discontinuing an antidepressant with a short half-life, switching to a drug with a longer half-life (e.g., fluoxetine or citalopram) and then tapering, and eventually discontinuing, from that drug can decrease the severity of symptoms in some cases. [11] Treatment is dependent on the severity of the discontinuation reaction and whether or ...
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This is a list of psychiatric medications used by psychiatrists and other physicians to treat mental illness or distress.. The list is ordered alphabetically according to the condition or conditions, then by the generic name of each medication.