Why is alcohol withdrawal more deadly in comparison to “harder” drugs like heroin?
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Alcohol and Benzo withdrawal can kill you if severe enough. Essentially your body becomes so used to being “down” with alcohol in your blood, that it stops making natural chemicals in your brain that help regulate you “down.”
Thus if you take the alcohol “down” away your body has no way to stay “down” because it stopped making the natural “down” chemical.
So now your body is UP, your blood pressure is UP, your heart rate is UP, your can’t think straight, you begin losing your mind, you begin having delusions.
essentially your brain cooks itself to death because it physically cant get “down” unless you introduce alcohol or benzos back into the blood.
you become a slave to alcohol.
I was a hardcore addict for 8 years but I have been sober now for 3. I will never drink again. I would tell my children to never drink.
It is a complete waste
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