40 patients with ages of 31-60 and alcohol withdrawal syndrome in hospital 103 during 1999-2001 participated to a study. The evaluation of the exogenous factors that influenced the alcoholism and clinical features of alcoholism withdrawal syndrome after 5-10 days of the treatment.
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome ; alcoholism

Injection-related necrosis is a common pattern in the arterial injuries. But the acute embolization that led to extremity necrosis is very rare. Here we described a case of 43-year male patient with arm necrosis due to intra-arterial drug injection. The patient has addicted drug for 24 years and has injected opium for 18 years with dose of 2 ml self-prepared opium solution, 3-4 times daily. On April 2000, after second injection of a day, the patient felt burn and pain in his left hand. Then watery purples and necrotic papules appeared on the skin of left arm. He was treated by antibiotics, analgesics, and vasodilators, but the condition was not improved. The patients had to be amputated his left arm after 3 days of admission.
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome ; Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium ; diagnosis

As for treatment in community: the alcohol addicts are giving up alcohol completely after treatment is 4/31 equals 12.90%. The times using alcohol daily are reduced from 7 days down to 5 days is 11/31 (35.48%). The treatment of alcohol addiction in the community: beside the use of different anti-anxieties must be combine together with psychotherapy as well as the support from family and community, particularly addict's determination.
Alcoholism ; therapy ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome

The Central Mental Hospital combined with communes to establish 6 subdivisions of drug addiction withdrawal. The rate of drug addiction in communes was 0,31 and occurred mainly in Youth. After 10 days of treatment, almost of addicts had no addictive crisis and came their home. However, there were some difficulties for model of community based drug addiction withdrawal, including addict’s management, isolation, participation of social organizations, existance of addictive focuses, which lead the high relapsed addiction.
Substance-Related Disorders ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome

The study was designed as perspective clinical trial, comparing before and after treatment with BSA 52 in 30 patients with drug withdrawal. BSA 52 supported the addicts to overcome the drug substinent symptoms and to recover promptly general health status. Effective time was between 2 to 3 days in average with a sucessful rate of 93.33% of all studies cases. No considerable side effects were observed during the trial
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Therapeutics ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome

There are many traditional medications for withdrawing drug addiction. They are various kinds, formulation and has been being tried clinically. The clinical trials should be considered under principles including only implementation of clinical trial after preclinical studies; the clinical trials in centers for withdrawal of drug addiction. It should have a unified guideline of treatment by MOH. It should clarify the clinical trials and retrospective study.
Medicine, Traditional ; Substance-Related Disorders ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome

Nalbuphine, a mixed agonist-antagonist type opioid, can precipitate abstinence syndrome in opioid-dependent patients especially in large doses. We can prevent this syndrome by avoiding the injection of agonist-antagonist type opioid to the patient who already has used opioid for a long time, and the method of relatively small dose increments in its use. We experienced a case of opioid withdrawal symptom in chronically morphine-administered patient via epidural catheter after using intramuscular nalbuphine for analgesia. The symptom was promptly relieved by intravascular morphine injection without any problems.
Analgesia ; Catheters ; Humans ; Morphine ; Nalbuphine* ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome*

No abstract available.
Nicotine ; Psychometrics ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome ; Tobacco Use Disorder

OBJECTIVETo make technical standard of acupuncture manipulation for acupuncture treatment of heroin withdrawal syndrome.

METHODSTwo hundred and twenty cases of heroin withdrawal syndrome were randomly divided into an acupuncture group of 111 cases and a control group of 109 cases. They were respectively treated with acupuncture and oral administration of lofexidine hydrochloride, and their therapeutic effects were observed.

RESULTSThe heroin dependence (acute stage) were effectively withdrawn in the two groups. The treatment group in change of total scores for withdrawal symptoms before and after treatment, the total scores for withdrawal symptoms at the 4th and 5th days, treatment of insomnia and the score for self-Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the score after at the 4th day was superior to the control group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, P < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONAcupuncture has a satisfactory, rapid, safe and reliable clinical therapeutic effect.

Drugs of the benzodiazepine family pharmacologically have superior anti-anxiety, sedative, anti-convulsant, and muscle relaxant effect resulting in its popular use not only in psychiatry but in other field of medicine. However, the long term use of benzodiazepines may cause to question the efficacy and may amount to dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal symptoms thus leading to sociologic problems. The treatment strategies of benzodiazepine dependence consist of gradual dosage reduction, the substitution to a long half-life benzodiazepine, and providing psychological support. We present two treatment experiences of high dose lorazepam dependence along with the review of corresponding literature.
Benzodiazepines ; Half-Life ; Humans ; Lorazepam* ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome