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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Traumatic seisures, cardiac arrest, or aspirating your own vomit and sufficating. That is what an unassisted alcohol withdrawal can cause. Any true alcoholic under DSM IV should ignore any advice to just send it all down the drain and move on.
Another thanks to Pan.
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Very good Elphaba, it can cause all those and so much more, and yet hospitals and doctors rarely seem to really treat it throughly in E.R.'s.
It's sad but on average doctors only recieve 8 hours of addiction training and even then it's more on prescription drugs than anything else.
One of the best ways to help yourself in recovery is to find a doctor (dentist), who is in recovery himself. They are out there and usually it isn't that hard to locate them. They are good at alternative pain relief without doping you up, usually.