The answer to dealing with the glut of information is to find trusted resources and paradigms for the management of alcohol use disorder.
One must know the rationale for managing withdrawal, how to manage complications related with alcohol withdrawal, how to risk stratify patient for home versus residential withdrawal, which medications to prescribe, how to management relapse, how to prescribe anti-craving medications and which services to refer patients to treatment manage the underlying behavioural issues which assisted in the formation in alcohol use disorder.
In our episode of Cracking Addiction this week we address all of the above issues and complexity and provide simple and evidence based guidelines to treat patients with alcohol use disorder.