Always depend on the substance used, as appropriate to describe the most common addictions:
Alcohol. The withdrawal syndrome begins relatively moderate drinkers 12 to 24 hours after he stopped drinking, and their symptoms are: tremor, weakness, chills, headache, dehydration and nausea (identical to those of a hangover, but of longer duration and intensity). Also common is the desire to re-ingest the substance.
In heavy drinkers, in addition to the above, there may be a more serious event, called delirium tremens, which occurs between 2 and 10 days after stopping drinking alcohol and can be fatal. In principle, the patient is anxious, disoriented, nightmares, excessive sweating, changes in touch and deep depression, sometimes the pulse quickens, fever, seizures (epilepsy alcohol) and hallucinations. It also appears that the ground moves, the bed or the walls fall tour.If there is a deficiency of vitamins can occur after delirium tremens, Korsakoff syndrome, in which memory loss of recent events, and Wernicke encephalopathy, which produces abnormal movements of eyes and limbs, confusion and mood swings.
Nicotine. Generally, the longer and more cigarettes a person smokes, much more likely to have symptoms to stop using snuff, the most common are: uncontrollable desire to smoke, tension, irritability, headache, difficulty concentrating, drowsiness or insomnia and increased appetite and weight.
Narcotics. Morphine, hydromorphone, opium and heroin, in addition of pharmacological substances such as oxycodone and codeine in this group of nervous system depressants. The body’s reaction is usually withdrawal in principle, rapid breathing, accompanied by yawning, tearing, runny nose and sweating, then you have hyperactivity, exaggerated sense of alertness, increased heart rate, piloerection (“goose bumps”) and fever. Other manifestations include dilated pupils, tremors, chills, muscle aches, poor appetite, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Anxiolytics and hypnotics. They are drugs that depress nerve activity, such as benzodiazepines, barbiturates, glutethimide, and meprobamate Chloral hydrate prescribed prescription for anxiety or sleep, but when taken in high doses or for prolonged periods addictive. By interrupting their consumption when unit is triggered a severe reaction, terrifying and potentially deadly, very similar to delirium tremens, whose main symptoms are weakness, malaise, depression, tremor, dehydration, delirium, insomnia and hallucinations.
Amphetamines. The addiction to these stimulant of the nervous system usually starts when administered as drugs to lose weight, although methamphetamine and MDMA, or ecstasy have achieved wide distribution in the illegal market. When consumption is stopped abruptly generated extreme fatigue and drowsiness, although some people show intensely anxious and restless. Consumers who were depressed when you start using amphetamine can increase their discomfort when they leave, to the extent that they adopt suicidal. They also experience delusions and hallucinations.
Cocaine. It is another stimulant of the nervous system, only more powerful, can be inhaled or injected, and when boiled with sodium bicarbonate gives the crack, which can be smoked. Tolerance develops quickly and withdrawal reactions include extreme fatigue, depression and anxiety of suicide, sometimes there are hallucinations.
“Angel dust” or PCP. Was developed in the mid-twentieth century as an anesthetic, but it was abandoned because the patients had anxiety, psychosis, delusions and temporary tables (major alterations of reality and perception), but began to be synthesized in clandestine laboratories for its use as a stimulant. His withdrawal generates depression, craving for drugs, fatigue, difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much, increased appetite and weight, slow or sudden and unpleasant vivid dreams. The character tends to become violent and suicidal.
Withdrawal in newborns. In addition to the specific difficulties of the syndrome, according to the substance used by the mother, a baby may have other problems:
- Poor growth.
- Premature birth.
- Seizures.
- Birth defects.
- Excessive crying and very strong.
- Poor feeding, poor sucking breast milk.