other than compassion, caring, loving, taking extremely good care of, and just trying to understand? The irritability is really getting to me when I am doing everything possible. I need some new answers, since mine don’t seem to be working

just doing a little research for school…I already assume that electrolytes would be out of wack.

I’m talking like for a serious alcoholic…
This person is currently in the hospital and not had any alcohol in several days, not sure exactly how long. But he’s already almost died once, over the weekend, but now they are saying the same thing again that he may not make it through the night tonight.

I have a friend who is an alcholoic. She also suffers from hypertension and anxiety and panic attacks. She is on a host of meds for the hypertension and ativan for the anxiety and panic attaacks.
She wants to stop drinking but cannot find a hospital due to her insurance. She also doesnt have the money to go to a rehab hospital so I was curious what meds they would give her, and if she can do this by possibly increasing the ativan

my brother has been in alcohol detox 3 times in a 12 month period. my mom visited him wed in the detox hospital and she said he didnt look good at all. he checked himself in last friday because he drank 16 beers in about 2 hours. he has been to detox numerous times in his life, he will quit for awhile then just go back to drinking again. the doctors told him last time (before this time) that his body wont be able to handle another detox. he is only 35 yrs old.

from a young age?
such as George Best
and Oliver Reed ?
its a shame- what do you think!
do you know anymore? – love Jo xx

I was an intravenous drug user. I know it was incredibly stupid. Sometimes I was so high or so desperate to get high that I would share needles. I found out 10 years ago that I have Hep C but it was a low trace amount. I was scared to do the treatment because of all the horror stories I’ve heard about it. Now I’ve heard that the treatment isn’t quite as drastic. Then I just read an article in People about Nat King Cole who made the treatment out to be like hell. She said that it was like having the worst flu times 10 and she lost her hair. She was very tired and extremely depressed even suicidal. I’ve been suffering from severe depression even way before I used drugs. I’m now 35 and my levels have elavated a bit. Here’s some questions I have:
Does it make you very nauseous?
How painful is the injection?
How likely are they to get rid of it?
Can you take painkillers and/or anti-nausea medication?
Will you lose your hair?
Can you still work or do acitivites?
WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON STANDARD TREATMENT NOW (WHAT DRUGS) AND HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?
Can it make depression unbearable?
Do some people have little or no side-effects?
I have drank (sometimes binged) the past 10 years, could that have made my liver much worse?
Can you drink alcohol again after treatment if it’s successful just once in a while like at a special occassion?
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!