Sorry. I mean what is it about alcohol withdrawal that makes it different, i.e. more dangerous, than withdrawal from other drugs?
How the body responds to sudden withdrawal depends on how the drug of addiction has affected and changed the body.
Alcohol is chemically and physiologically different from both opioids and stimulants (which don’t tend to have fatal withdrawal syndromes). With opioids, the symptoms are due to the opioid receptors in the body suddenly not being stimulated, with resultant aches, pains, and physiologic dysfunction which is uncomfortable but not critical. Same for stimulants.
But barbs and alcohol when used chronically tend to rewire the central nervous system, and rapid withdrawal can result in autonomic instability; seizures, crashing blood pressure and generalized shock. Benzos can do similar, but are less likely to do so.
there are explanations that go much deeper, to the specific physiology. But it’s complicated and I’m not online long enough to grok it completely myself today,
I was going to say not in Canada.
And there you go…
ETA: Picking up an extra $700 a month is a very nice bonus for quitting drinking.
I hope you meant ethanol. Methanol will kill you toot sweet.
I had a friend who used to drink a half of a fifth every day. Plus maybe some wine with dinner. He was a full professor with a decent income. He went to a dryout center for a month and came out cured. That was over 35 years ago and now he drinks with care. He is 83.
Yes, yes, I meant ethanol. Not sure if that was a typo or autocorrect or both at work there.