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Article: Dr. Louis D. Gottlieb of Yale University School of Medicine talks about treatment for alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
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- May 4, 1987
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NEW YORK, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- For some alcoholics, the effort to stop drinking is complicated by alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), whose symptoms range from mild agitation and tremulousness to delirium tremens -- hallucinations, disiorientation, life-threatening elevated body temperature and seizures.
About 10 percent of people who stop drinking suffer withdrawal symptoms severe enough to require hospitalization, according to Dr. Louis D. Gottlieb, assistant clinical professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Conn.
In a recent study, Dr. Gottlieb ...