Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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Acupuncture for Withdrawal
Acupuncture needles in the ear are widely used to calm down cravings of all sorts and have been well documented as being helpful in the treatment of withdrawal. Both the Lincoln Hospital in New York and the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic have had very positive results incorporating some form of acupuncture in their drug and alcohol treatment programs, especially when used for the pain and anxiety of withdrawal and cravings. |
Devra Davis
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 There is probably something worse than nicotine withdrawal, but I couldn't tell you what that is. Nobody in their right mind would ever travel in a plane flown by a guy going through withdrawal."
What did nicotine withdrawal have to do with the NAS—an institution that most American presidents routinely tap for advice on nuclear weapons and global warming? |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 These withdrawal symptoms are at their most severe during the second day of caffeine withdrawal and can continue for up to a week. The existence of the withdrawal syndrome would seem to suggest an addictive component of caffeine; however, research into the question of whether caffeine is addictive has been equivocal.
Excessive caffeine intake could even be lethal. A few cases of human deaths attributable to caffeine have been reported, although the circumstances were extraordinary. |
Jack Challem
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 They entail psychological, neurochemical, and physical dependencies—obsessions, cravings, and the feeling that it's impossible to live without alcohol or drugs. withdrawal symptoms become uncomfortable and intense, and the addiction begins as a way to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Once the addiction is established, withdrawal becomes painful and difficult. Because alcohol and drugs are costly, addicts often lie to family and friends, cheat, steal, and destroy themselves financially to maintain their addictions. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 You must be careful not to stop taking an antidepressant abruptly, which can cause intense withdrawal symptoms. If you do decide to try going off of it, taper gradually with the help of your doctor. Don't substitute the facts from this (or any) book for your doctor's medical opinion. However, you may want to bring up some of this information with your doctor, and follow my suggestions for an easier withdrawal experience. |
John Lauritsen
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 Actually, few alcoholics reach the point where they go into severe withdrawal, which usually occurs only in those with a history of at least ten years of heavy daily drinking; most who drink that heavily die of other causes first. withdrawal from alcohol and barbiturates (sometimes regarded as "solid alcohol") is more severe than withdrawal from any other drug, including the narcotics; only with alcohol and barbiturates can death result from the withdrawal itself. This is not to deny that suffering is involved in withdrawal from heroin, cocaine, or for that matter, cigarettes. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Extra label use is also allowed if there is a sufficient withdrawal time prior to slaughter to ensure that a harmful tissue residue does not exist in edible product. Grassie also noted, "A euthanasia solution such as pentobarbital obviously cannot have a withdrawal time and its mechanism of action results in a tissue residue so it could not be used to euthanize animals intended for human or animal food."16
What I have concluded is that the FDA/CVM under its regulations does not allow animals injected with sodium pentobarbital to be used in pet food product. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Both the Lincoln Hospital in New York and the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic have had very positive results incorporating some form of acupuncture in their drug and alcohol treatment programs, especially when used for the pain and anxiety of withdrawal and cravings.
"Ear needles can be a valuable adjunct in helping people get through the difficult phases of withdrawal," says Robert Duggan, M.A., founder and president of the Tai Sophia Institute, whose center uses a variety of methods to treat addicts and alcoholics, including twelve-step programs and ear needles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If someone misuses/abuses Ritalin, Adderall, or both, help is necessary to stop using, not only to prevent further harm, but also to keep the person safe during withdrawal. Once one has become addicted to these substances, stopping could cause withdrawal symptoms similar to those with cocaine, such as: severe depression psychosis restlessness extreme feelings of agitation
You may think that you are safer and more frugal by snorting Ritalin and Adderall, rather than cocaine, but you are harming yourself in similar ways. |
Devra Davis
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| Nobody in their right mind would ever travel in a plane flown by a guy going through withdrawal."
What did nicotine withdrawal have to do with the NAS—an institution that most American presidents routinely tap for advice on nuclear weapons and global warming? The motto written on the gold-leafed dome of the academy's Great Hall is an ode to the powers of science: "To science, pilot of industry, conqueror of disease, multiplier of the harvest, explorer of the universe, revealer of nature's laws, eternal guide to truth. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Adaptogens and nervines are important supportive therapies for patients experiencing drug withdrawal regardless of whether they are quitting legal habits such as cigarettes, alcohol (do not use alcohol-based tinctures for alcoholics), or coffee or quitting illicit drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, or amphetamines. Quitting and withdrawal symptoms are still going to be difficult, but adaptogens and nervines can make the difference between success and failure. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Easing withdrawal Symptoms
Arecent study found that selegiline(Depver\yV) reduces withdrawal symptoms of smokers who are trying to quit. Another study to confirm those results is under way and will be finished in 2008. Selegiline helps users maintain higher levels of dopamine, a brain chemical associated with pleasure. People trying to quit smoking produce less dopamine, which can cause them to be irritable and nervous. The drug is currently used for Parkinson's disease patients.
Tony P. George, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT. |
| The nausea and jitteriness induced by the medication are consistent with symptoms of mild opiate withdrawal," according to senior researcher Dr. Steven Feldman, a professor of dermatology.
"We had previously shown that ultraviolet light has an effect on mood that [people who use tanning beds] value," says Dr. Mandeep Kaur, lead author of the study. "Now, in this small study, we've shown that some tanners actually experience withdrawal symptoms when the 'feel-good' chemicals are blocked."
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Hyla Cass
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| You must be careful not to stop taking an antidepressant abruptly, which can cause intense withdrawal symptoms. If you do decide to try going off of it, taper gradually with the help of your doctor. Don't substitute the facts from this (or any) book for your doctor's medical opinion. However, you may want to bring up some of this information with your doctor, and follow my suggestions for an easier withdrawal experience. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| Quitting and withdrawal symptoms are still going to be difficult, but adaptogens and nervines can make the difference between success and failure. Abascal also recognizes the importance of this type of herb in addiction recovery:
I pretty much always incorporate them [adaptogens] and always find them highly useful. The one instance where I think we forget to use adaptogens is in smoking cessation. Quitting smoking is always difficult. Most people make it through the physical withdrawal period with the use of appropriate nervines and pure resolve. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Nicotine addiction also results in withdrawal symptoms when a person tries to stop smoking. A study found that when chronic smokers were deprived of cigarettes for 24 hours, they had increased anger, hostility, aggression and loss of social cooperation. People suffering from withdrawal take longer to regain emotional balance and control following stressful events. During periods of abstinence from smoking, smokers have shown impairment across a wide range of psychomotor and cognitive functions, such as language comprehension.11
That smoking is addictive and deadly is beyond debate. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 The good news is that even mild exercise can help stave off cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms as well as decrease a smoker's chance of reaching for a cigarette, according to a study published in the journal Addiction. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Toronto reviewed fourteen previously published studies and compared the results. They found that twelve of the studies demonstrated that a session of exercise caused a rapid decrease in cigarette cravings, withdrawal symptoms, and other negative effects of cigarette addiction. |
Jack Challem
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 Periods of low blood sugar can feel like drug withdrawal, and people frequently respond by eating whatever quickly boosts their blood sugar, typically a sugary or high-calorie snack. But as with drug addictions, such fixes create a need for increasingly frequent and calorie-rich fixes. Whether the problem is sugars, carbs, or coffee, the food addict needs more of the fix more often to avoid feeling withdrawal symptoms.
Second, if you have regular food cravings for specific foods, such as for bread or ice cream, your addiction has an even stronger resemblance to drug addiction. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Remember that eliminating an allergenic food can cause withdrawal reactions. "The majority of people who give up foods they're allergic to go through a mild to moderate withdrawal phase, lasting one to five days, while the body detoxifies itself," says Dr. Braly. Allergic symptoms may get worse during this period and cravings can be intense. If the allergenic foods were also your comfort foods, you may experience emotional feelings of loss and distress. But as Dr. |
Devra Davis
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| As a former nicotine addict, Chalmers knew that the worst symptoms of withdrawal hit within a few hours. The brain of a smoker doesn't work well without its regular boost of nicotine. The rates of breathing and beating of the heart, reactions to light and heat and cold, and speed of response to anything good or bad are all affected. Who on earth would want to fly in a plane piloted by a person in the throws of nicotine withdrawal, where the list of symptoms extends from irritability and anxiety, difficulty concentrating, restlessness, insomnia, tingling sensations and dizziness, and shakes? |
Shannon Brownlee
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 It concerned a patient who had suffered withdrawal symptoms coming off Paxil, one of the drugs Justin had taken. "Imagine my horror and relief the first time I typed 'Paxil and suicide' into a Web search engine and there was over 4,000 hits," he would eventually write in a letter to a plaintiff's lawyer. Linda Cheslek was not convinced that either Paxil or Effexor, the other antidepressant Justin had taken, had anything to do with their son's death. "I didn't believe Gary at first," she said later. "I thought he was reading junk science. I thought he was in denial. |
| Other company research suggested that as many as one in four patients on Paxil suffer withdrawal symptoms if they abruptly stop taking the drug. As David Healy, a British psychiatrist who helped spark recent investigations into the potential dangers of SSRIs, puts it, "If you've got a very severe problem, and I treat you with a drug like Paxil, I may save your life, I may save your marriage, I may save your career. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| People suffering from withdrawal take longer to regain emotional balance and control following stressful events. During periods of abstinence from smoking, smokers have shown impairment across a wide range of psychomotor and cognitive functions, such as language comprehension.11
That smoking is addictive and deadly is beyond debate. The real issue is how best to assist smokers to break this lethal habit. The key is you have to want to quit. The addiction is so powerful that few smokers listen to those who love them. But just because it's hard doesn't mean we shouldn't try. |
| The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant withdrawal, Dependence, and Addiction
Joseph Glenmullen ISBN: 0743269721
Publishers Weekly Review: "The author of Prozac Backlash returns with important and sound advice for patients who are taking antidepressant medications, particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRls) like Prozac and Paxil."
National Eating Disorders Association www.NationalEatingDisorders.org
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism www.niaaa.nih. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Symptoms of withdrawal can include headache and sleeping disorders.
Pregnancy: Pregnant women should avoid caffeine, under no circumstances exceeding a dosage of 300 mg per day (3 cups of coffee spread out over the day).
Nursing Mothers: Infants nursing from mothers who take drinks containing caffeine may suffer from sleeping disorders. drug interactions
POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS
The drug may hinder the resorption of other medicines. overdosage
Dosages exceeding 1. |
| BARBERRY ROOT BARK
Unproven uses: Barberry has been used for opium or morphine withdrawal. In folk medicine, the bark is used for liver malfunctions, gallbladder disease, jaundice, splenopa-thy, indigestion, diarrhea, tuberculosis, piles, renal disease, urinary tract disorders, gout, rheumatism, arthritis, lumbago, malaria, and leishmaniasis. |
| EFFECTS
The isoflavones in kudzu root extract may suppress alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Antibacterial effects, anti-cancer effects, anti-inflammatory effects, antioxidant effects, antithrombotic effects, cardiovascular effects, estrogenic effects, hepatic effects, hypoglycemic effects, neurologic effects, and osteoporotic effects have been described for Puerarin. Kudzu also inhibits and induces cytochrome P450 isoenzymes. |
| There were 5 cases of mild itching that resolved in the first 24 hours; this did not result in patient withdrawal. "Cured" patients were followed for 20 months, and at the end of this time there was a 13% recurrence rate (Syed et al, 1997).
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fifty-eight patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) were randomized to receive Aloe vera or a placebo during a 3-month period. Symptoms were assessed at baseline, 1 and 3 months. No evidence was found that Aloe vera benefits patients with IBS (Davis et al, 2006). |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| A good way to tell is if you experience withdrawal symptoms such as mood swings, headaches, and/or fatigue whenever you avoid caffeine for a day or two. Don't worry though, this is only temporary and can be greatly reduced by drinking large amounts of water and taking an oxygen-based intestinal cleanser.
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How to Eliminate Toxins from Caffeine and Coffee
• Slowly reduce your intake of caffeinated beverages. Replace those beverages with herbal teas or coffee substitutes such as Teeccino®, Pero®, or Roma® brands. |
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