Withdraw: Fill & Download for Free

No, it’s not a myth. It’s called acute alcohol withdrawal.It can be life-threatening in some people, particularly long-term alcoholics. Rehab facilities that deal with such patients need to have specially trained medical staff on hand. There are procedures for withdrawing from alcohol without killing the patient; this is called “medically assisted alcohol withdrawal” or “medical detox.”Medically assisted alcohol withdrawal can involve the use of sedatives, drugs to prevent tachycardia, and even anti-seizure medication; seizures are a withdrawal risk for long-term alcoholics.Sudden cessation of alcohol after long-term alcoholism can kill.

When a person describes heroin withdrawal as ten times worse than the flu, they are doing it no justice — plain and simple.That's like saying that sex and ice cream are the same.Sure, sex and ice cream are both awesome, but they're not really the same when you dissect the feelings that each of them evokes.Same with heroin withdrawal and “ten times worse than the flu” — yeah, they're both awful, but really, they're not the same.The first time I went through real heroin withdrawal was in Lancaster County Prison after a ten year habit. It was torture beyond imagination, and I have yet the strength to write an in-depth description on Quora.One of the withdrawal symptoms of heroin is the feeling of suffocation.From the last time you shoot heroin, it takes about six days to fall asleep. When you finally do fall asleep, you wake up in an hour or two feeling like you're suffocating on your swollen tongue and saliva.There is one thing that helps that particular withdrawal symptom that jails do not provide.Air movement.My current girlfriend has two children. The only thing that we ever argue about is the amount of noise they make after I go to bed.I need complete silence and darkness to fall asleep — I always have.But ever since I got clean from heroin, there is one noise (that used to bother me to no end) that I can fall asleep to — the hum of a fan that circulates the air.Without it, I feel like I'm going through heroin withdrawal.When I feel like I'm going through heroin withdrawal, it triggers me to want to shoot heroin again.I never want to go back to that life — the life that was really no life at all.The object that would hurt me the most to lose, is my stupid fan.It keeps me from wanting to shoot heroin.I'll choose my dirty old annoying fan over any other object on earth, hands down.Leon

If the attorney decides to withdraw due to his client's admission of guilt, he should tell the judge, "I'm withdrawing because I have resigned from practicing law; I have learned that I don't have what it takes to honor my sworn duty to represent my client."