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Addiction Psychiatry 2018 Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
ISSN: 2155-6105 Page 43
August 13-14, 2018
Madrid, Spain
8th International Conference on
Addiction Psychiatry
Alcohol is a psychoactive substance with dependence-creating
properties. In 2012, about 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9% of all
global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption[1].
Symptoms of severe alcohol withdrawal are fewer than 10%
and manifest delirium tremens and seizure. [2].The purpose
of this study was to discuss the effect of diazepam infusion
requirements for delirium tremens. The age of the cases were
respectively 39, 43, 57 and 59. The age of first alcohol use were
respectively 13, 9, 13, 15.The average daily alcohol consumption
were 23, 25, 16, 25 standard drinks and 4 patients had been
drinking regularly for 23,18,37,40 years.Two patients had been
drinking 2 liters/day of 80% alcohol containing drinks (Turkish
cologne).The four of the patients progressed delirium tremens
at the first day of hospitalization.The administrated diazepam
dosages were respectively 140 mg/day, 480 mg/day, 400 mg/
day and 240 mg/day on the first day.The dosage was reduced by
10% of gradually in the following days.Withdrawal treatment was
consider that early onset alcohol
drinking and family history are the predictors of inconceivable
doses of diazepam for the patients we have reported.There is
not any consensus with the dosages of diazepam treatment for
delirium tremens.[3]The studies reveal that symptom-triggered
treatment or fixed-dose regimen can be used in the treatment of
alcohol withdrawal.[4]However in some cases as we reported
vagarious manners may emerge and clinicians have to bend the
treatment is crucial to determine the risk factors for
severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
Biography
DemetGulecOyekcinisworkingasanAssociateProfessorintheDepartment
of Psychiatry at Çanakkale University in Turkey. I am the coordinator of
the Addiction Psychiatry Section (APS) of Psychiartic Association and I
primed the Addicition division 4 years ago in the Psychiatry Department
of the Medicine Faculty. I have been studying in the addiction field since
2012. Prior to that I studied in different areas of psychiatry; pschoanalyisis,
psychodinamic psychatriy, epidemiology and personality our
outpatient/inpatient clinic wemainly treat the patients who have alcohol use
disorders;Theresearcheswearecurrentlyconducting intheareaofaddiction
are as follows: epidemiology of alcohol and substance use among college
students, childhood trauma and severity of alcohol addiction,impulsivity and
brain research of alcohol addicition, emotion regulation.
Ebru Aldemir has been a Psychiatrist for fifteen years. She is a Lecturer
and a PhD student on Substance Addiction Programme at Ege University
Institute on Drug Abuse, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science. She has
published more than 15 papers in reputed journals. Her research interests
are addictive disorders, neurocognitive functions, motivational interviewing
and brief psychotherapies.
Inconceivable Dosage of Diazepam in Severe Alcohol
Withdrawal Syndrome
Demet Gulec Oyekcin and Ebru Aldemir
Çanakkale University, Turkey
Aegean University Institute on Drug Abuse, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science, Turkey
Ebru Aldemir et al., J Addict Res Ther 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6105-C2-039