ALLMedicine™ Withdrawal Syndromes Center

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Alcohol and opioids are two major contributors to so-called deaths of despair. Though the effects of these substances on mammalian systems are distinct, commonalities in their withdrawal syndromes suggest a shared pathophysiology. For example, bot...

Jan 12th, 2021 - The estimated annual prevalence of drug use disorders is as high as 3%, underpinning the need to continually develop more effective treatments. Central nervous system dysregulation, contributing to acute and post-withdrawal syndromes, has traditio...

Nov 14th, 2020 - Polytrauma patients are at high risk for neurologic complications as a result of the primary mechanism of their trauma and/or delirium caused by subsequent pain, sedatives and analgesic exposure, sleep disturbances, infections, metabolic derangeme...

Apr 14th, 2020 - Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is a common and life-threatening condition in patients suffering from alcohol use disorder. Treatment of this syndrome is challenging, especially in patients that are critically ill, either because of withdrawal symptom...

Apr 8th, 2020 - Studies on psychotropic medications decrease, discontinuation, or switch have uncovered withdrawal syndromes. The present overview aimed at analyzing the literature to illustrate withdrawal after decrease, discontinuation, or switch of psychotropi...