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2. What Really Happens to Your Body a Week After You Stop Drinking

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   If you’re drinking more than seven drinks a week for a woman or 14 for a man, especially for extended periods of time, consider talking to a doctor first before stopping cold turkey.

3. Drug withdrawal - Wikipedia

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   The term "cold turkey" is used to describe the sudden cessation of use of a substance and the ensuing physiologic manifestations. The symptoms from withdrawal may be even more dramatic when the drug has masked prolonged malnutrition , disease, chronic pain , infections (common in intravenous drug use), or sleep deprivation , conditions that ...

4. Don’t go ‘cold turkey’ when coming off antidepressants ...

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   Patients who wish to come off the drugs permanently should first agree with their doctor whether it is right to stop taking the medication, and, if so, the speed and duration of withdrawal from it ...

5. 6 Major Things That Happen to Your Body if You Stop Drinking ...

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   Scientific studies show that regularly drinking alcohol prematurely ages skin because it decreases dermal carotenoid concentrations (antioxidants that protect the skin from sunlight-induced ...

6. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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   The brain regions most sensitive to harm from binge drinking are the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. [28] People in adolescence who experience repeated withdrawals from binge drinking show impairments of long-term nonverbal memory. Alcoholics who have had two or more alcohol withdrawals show more frontal lobe cognitive dysfunction than those ...

7. Cold turkey - Wikipedia

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   For long-term alcoholics, going cold turkey can cause life-threatening delirium tremens. [1] In the case of opioid withdrawal, going "cold turkey" is extremely unpleasant but less dangerous. [2] [3] Life-threatening issues are unlikely unless one has a pre-existing medical condition. [3]