It is also indicated as a treatment for the management of acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

The drug is used in treating and preventing symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal.

Chlordiazepoxide is used to treat anxiety and acute alcohol withdrawal.

It is used for both acute alcohol withdrawal and medium to long-term detoxification.

On June 3, 1985, the defense papers said, Mr. Deaver was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital for "acute alcohol withdrawal and detoxification."

During acute alcohol withdrawal, changes also occur such as upregulation of alpha4 containing GABA receptors and down regulation of alpha1 and alpha3 containing GABA receptors.

Dr. Friedman said tiapride is used to treat acute alcohol withdrawal, involuntary movement disorders like Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, and agitation and anxiety as well as psychiatric disorders.

He died in May 1939 in a Paris hospital, of pneumonia and acute alcohol withdrawal, leaving a threadbare suit, an overcoat and his manuscripts; and was interred in the Cimetiere Thiais, now a rather desolate place in a run-down region of outer Paris.