withdrawal

Examples of withdrawal in the following topics:

• Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

  • Substance-use and addictive disorders are marked by physiological dependence, drug-seeking behavior, tolerance, and/or withdrawal.
  • This state creates the conditions of tolerance and withdrawal.
  • Substance use disorder can be diagnosed with physiological dependence, evidence of tolerance or withdrawal, or without physiological dependence.  
  • In addition, criteria for cannabis and caffeine withdrawal were added.
  • Early treatment of acute withdrawal from substances often includes medical detoxification, in which a person goes through the process and experience of withdrawal symptoms while discontinuing a drug.

• Substance Abuse and Health

  • Withdrawal symptoms are equally dangerous: these are the uncomfortable and sometimes fatal physical symptoms that occur when the drug is absent from the body.
  • This is often called "withdrawal" and can result in uncontrollable shaking and convulsions, extreme physical pain, and even dehydration, since users in this state may be unable to consume food and water.

• Narcotics

  • Physical dependence refers to an alteration of normal body functions that necessitates the continued presence of a drug in order to prevent the withdrawal or abstinence syndrome.
  • The withdrawal symptoms experienced from opioid addiction are usually first felt shortly before the time of the next scheduled dose.
  • There is a high probability that relapse will occur after narcotic withdrawal when neither the physical environment nor the behavioral motivators that contributed to the abuse have been altered.

• Neurocognitive Disorders

  • As a person's condition declines, they often withdraw from family and society.

• Depressants

  • These properties make benzodiazepines useful in treating anxiety, insomnia, agitation, seizures, muscle spasms, alcohol withdrawal, and as a premedication for medical or dental procedures.

• Introduction to Personality Disorders

  • They neither desire, nor need, human attachments, and withdraw from relationships and prefer to be alone.

• Maintaining Motivation

  • Problems resulting from stress include decline in physical health or mental health, a sense of being overwhelmed, feelings of anxiety, overall irritability, insecurity, nervousness, social withdrawal, loss of appetite, depression, panic attacks, exhaustion, high or low blood pressure, skin eruptions or rashes, insomnia, lack of sexual desire (sexual dysfunction), migraine, gastrointestinal difficulties (constipation or diarrhea), heart problems, and menstrual symptoms.

• Stimulants

  • Drug tolerance, dependence, sensitization, and withdrawal can occur after repeated use.

• Explaining Mood Disorders

  • Other symptoms of depression include poor concentration and memory, withdrawal from social situations and activities, reduced sex drive, and thoughts of death or suicide.

• Introduction to Schizophrenia and Psychosis

  • Disorders of behavior may involve deterioration of social functioning, such as social withdrawal, self-neglect, or neglect of environment.