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WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("withdrawal symptom" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Context examples:
However, the detoxification symptoms between morphine-like agents and methadone differ in that the onset of methadone's withdrawal symptoms is slower, the course is more prolonged and the symptoms are less severe.
(Methadone, NCI Thesaurus)
Nicotine chewing gum reduces the withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.
(Nicotine gum, NCI Thesaurus)
Drug withdrawal symptoms in a fetus following maternal discontinuation or reduction of use of one or more addictive substance(s) that have caused fetal physiological dependence.
(In utero Drug Withdrawal, NCI Thesaurus)
Alcoholism is a disease with four main features: • Craving - a strong need to drink • Loss of control - not being able to stop drinking once you've started • Physical dependence - withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, or shakiness when you don't drink • Tolerance - the need to drink greater amounts of alcohol to feel the same effect
(Alcoholism, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
Because of the prolonged half-life of methadone compared to other morphine-like agents such as heroin, the onset of opiate withdrawal symptoms is slower, the duration of opiate withdrawal is prolonged, and opiate withdrawal symptoms are less severe.
(Methadone hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
