General Internal Medicine

Substance-Related Disorders

Questions discussed in this category

What is your medication of choice when considering outpatient alcohol withdrawal management (diazepam vs chlordiazepoxide vs lorazepam)?

For your recommended medication, are you doing a scheduled set dose, or is it primarily symptom-driven?

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of addiction medicine, 2020 May/Jun

The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management.

Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 2014-06

The "Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale" (PAWSS): systematic literature review and pilot study of a new scale for the prediction of complicated alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

American journal of preventive medicine, 2015-10

Emergency Department Visits and Overdose Deaths From Combined Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines.

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