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Originally Posted by tore
Alcohol withdrawal is something that happens when your sentral nervous system has gotten used to functioning on alcohol and then you don't get any or stop drinking. There's a biochemical difference which is quite important. For people who have been alcoholics for years, going cold turkey may cause delirium and seizures and can even kill.
So, withdrawal symptoms is you feeling like **** because you don't have alcohol in your body when you are to some extent dependent on alcohol. Hangover is usually a catch-all term for whatever makes you feel like crap the day after getting drunk.  |
A friend of mines has a parent that's been an alcoholic for a large number of years and if their parent doesn't have any alcohol for a certain amount of time they have seizure, really really bad ones. It's resulted in many hospital trips and they banged their head off a few kerbs through having seizures in the street. It's pretty horrid.