Emotional Symptoms After you stop taking SSRIs, it's common to experience some changes in your emotions. Generally, withdrawal can cause more intense emotions—both positively and negatively. In ...

Medically reviewed by Erika Prouty, PharmD Close to 50% of regular or dependent marijuana users will experience withdrawal symptoms after they stop or significantly reduce their cannabis consumption.

Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown.

The authors also discovered the medications most often linked with withdrawal symptoms were desvenlafaxine, venlafaxine, imipramine and escitalopram. Those with the lowest rate of discontinuation ...

Several case reports have described a possible gabapentin withdrawal syndrome, including symptoms such as irritability, agitation, anxiety, tachycardia, diaphoresis, confusion, disorientation ...

Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms may be less common than we thought, at least for short-term use – but questions remain about what happens to people who stop taking the drugs after much longer ...

Long-term users also tend to experience worse withdrawal symptoms, and for a longer period of time, than short-term users, and are less likely to be able to stop taking the drug when they attempt ...

To further investigate how prevalent and severe withdrawal symptoms could be among patients, Henssler and colleagues carried out an analysis of 79 trials that had compiled data from 21,002 ...

About 15% of patients experienced withdrawal symptoms after weaning from antidepressants, a systematic review showed. In 2 to 3% of the cases, the symptoms were severe.

But one of the toughest withdrawal symptoms has been thoughts of suicide. “There’s kind of like this background noise that says, You know, just take yourself out,” he said.

Roughly half of US adult smokers try to quit each year but usually less than 10% succeed — mostly due to troubles managing intense cravings and withdrawal symptoms. A new treatment may help.