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Benzodiazapine addicts have it even worse than alcoholics like me in many ways; this is the common wisdom at the clinic where I got treatment, and it was pretty obvious looking at them, too. You can be done with the worst part of alcohol withdrawal after about four days, but I knew one benzo addict who was there for three weeks, and still a basket case.

Both alcohol and benzos can kill you stone-dead though if you are really addicted and try to quit cold turkey. I was in the same room as a guy with delirium tremens who later died. Not fun.

In that hospital illegal drugs were treated in different, generally closed wards, so I can't say much about that. I saw some people smoking outside who might have been in that category, but they didn't look much like happy campers, either.