Can Drug Withdrawal Cause a Fever?

Drug withdrawal symptoms manifest themselves in a wide variety of ways. However, can withdrawal cause fevers? The short answer is yes. Once you’ve gone long enough without drug use, the body goes through phases of cleansing, which could potentially include withdrawal-induced fever. This is your body’s response to substance dependency as it exhumes it from your system physically and mentally. The second part of the cleansing process, which can cause fever and sickness, can be the most difficult. Consult the following details about drug-related fevers to gain a better understanding of your condition and why professional rehab is necessary.

How Do Drug Withdrawal Symptoms Cause Fevers?

When you’ve begun the detox phase, fever, chills, and other flu-like symptoms are common short-term side effects. The following reasons detail the different ways drug withdrawal symptoms cause fevers.

Once your brain has developed a certain level of dependency, your body can become sick when the minimum intake requirement is not met. That means withdrawals are in full effect and essentially causing sickness.

This is why professionally administered and monitored detox is required to gradually wean you off highly addictive substances. Attempting to do so alone or cold turkey worsens sickness and even causes death by putting your body into shock. Our team of devoted professionals can help you overcome withdrawal symptoms with minimal illnesses and ailments.

Our bodies are designed to fight off bacteria and foreign agents from the body. Correlatively, once you’ve achieved a certain level of detox, your body recognizes substances as a foreign agent and seeks to remove them from your system. This can result in chills and fever that are to be closely monitored by a trained physician.

For some who require medication-aided detox, prescriptions can have flu-like side effects such as chills, nausea, and fever. That’s why it’s important to consult your physician before obtaining any detox-aiding prescription medications. These medications may negatively coincide with previously existing conditions and exacerbate them and addiction if not consulted appropriately.

Drugs have a drastic impact on neuronic functions, altering the chemical makeup of your brain chemistry. Once drug dependency has taken its toll on the mind, stopping drug use reverses that process, again altering the brain’s neuronic cell structure. Though the latter is restoring healthy neuronic functions, this expunging of the brain’s substance dependency causes flu-like symptoms up to and including high fever.

Are Withdrawal Fevers Dangerous?

Though fevers can be a common uncomfortable side effect of rehab withdrawals, it doesn’t make these occurrences any less important. That is to say, withdrawal-related fevers can be very dangerous if left unmonitored. High fevers associated with withdrawal-based bodily shock can, in some cases, elevate fevers beyond 106.7. When fevers reach these peaks, brain damage and other vital organs become a risk. Again, this is why all drug detox and rehab should be administered and observed by specialists and never self-attempted.

Which Drugs Most Commonly Cause Fever Withdrawals?

Can withdrawal cause fever

Most detox programs are accompanied by ailments or feelings of sickness of varying degrees, depending on the substance of choice. Therefore, fevers may occur depending on individual addiction variables  Here are some of the most common withdrawal fever-inducing drugs.

Heroine is one of the most dangerous drugs in the world, taking very little to overdose or develop dependency. Chemical dependency can even occur after a single use. Because of the highly addictive properties heroin possesses, withdrawals, such as fever, aches, and other ailments can be heightened over other drug withdrawal symptoms.  Thankfully, Acqua Recovery offers heroin addiction in Utah. We have all the tools, care, and support you need to thrive through the most difficult phases of heroin detox.

Most people don’t think of alcohol as an addictive substance, but it most certainly is. To take it a step further, it’s one of the most addictive substances not talked about and has some of the most troubling withdrawal symptoms. Fever from alcohol withdrawals can be especially troubling because it is expelled as sweat through your pores, potentially exacerbating fever temperature. Speak to an alcohol rehab treatment specialist to learn about drinking’s dangerous chemical alterations and how similar they are to drug withdrawal symptoms.

Meth addiction and dependency is a dangerous addiction that damages the brain in such a way that makes it even more difficult to recover. These lead to meth-induced fever withdrawals. Thankfully, recovery is manageable thanks to high-end treatment methods and prescription-based recovery aids administered by a professional. You don’t have to struggle alone. Find your detox and recovery solution from troubling meth withdrawal fevers and other symptoms at Acqua Recovery.

Cocaine is a potent stimulant, commonly referred to as speed. It also is known for its bothersome withdrawal symptoms because of its highly addictive properties. Like other drugs on this list, once you’ve developed a mental and physical dependence on cocaine, it requires professional cocaine rehab to recover properly. Without which could induce bodily harm up to and including death.

Fentanyl has rapidly become one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs in the entire world. It is also skyrocketing accidental suicide and overdose numbers across the globe. It’s so potent that, like heroin, one use can alter your brain chemistry so severely that you develop immediate dependency. If you or someone you love may be suffering from fentanyl abuse, each use is a ticking time bomb with their life. As long as there is still life, hope exists. Get help for fentanyl addiction by reaching out to a representative today.

A variety of prescription medications contain some of the most addictive and hardest drugs to recover from. Most of these over-the-counter medications are antidepressants, pain relievers, and other central nervous system depressants. Many of which contain the addictive and mentally harmful drug, benzodiazepine. You can get help for prescription medication addiction in Utah at Acqua Recovery.

What are the Most Common Substance Withdrawal Symptoms?

Various substances have different withdrawal symptoms of varying degrees. Genetics, dependence severity, and chemical bodily responses also play a role. However, the following are the most common withdrawal symptoms you will likely experience throughout the detox and rehab process.

When your body is accustomed to overstimulating pleasure cells, stopping substance use has adverse effects on your mood, making you easily irritable. It can be common to feel angry or experience drastic mood swings with no apparent cause due to withdrawal symptoms. This is your body’s way of coping with the lack of substances in your system until your neuronic functions have stabilized to normal frequencies.

Uncontrollable bodily shakes are an uncomfortable side effect of many rehab withdrawal symptoms. This includes a temporary condition known as restless leg syndrome, or RLS, a syndrome that is characterized by involuntary leg movements. Like other uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms, some medications can help alleviate withdrawal-associated tremors if approved by your physician.

It’s common to feel intense substance cravings during the beginning phases of detox or rehab. Despite the drugs’ toxicity to your body, your mind’s dependency will make you feel as though you need the drug when you don’t. This is one evidence of how substance use changes the neuronic makeup of your brain functions. This withdrawal symptom alone is why professional rehab and accountability are a vital part of recovery. Thanks to unparalleled support, patient attentiveness, and state-of-the-art treatment methods, our caring professionals make sobriety possible for anybody.

Overstimulating your brain’s pleasure center alone elevates anxiety because, for every high, there’s a crash. The same is true when it comes to detoxing drugs and alcohol dependency from your body. When your mind has grown accustomed to this abusive stimulation, stopping drugs has adverse effects on your stress and anxiety levels.

All patients are likely to experience some degree of sleeplessness throughout the detox process. However, thanks to effective natural brain chemical prescriptions that aid sleep deprivation, insomnia is perhaps one of the most treatable withdrawal symptoms. This doesn’t make this symptom any easier to deal with. But we can help you battle it with state-of-the-art pharmaceutical breakthroughs. Get a better night’s sleep and relief from insomnia withdrawals by enrolling in substance abuse treatment today.

Hallucinations are less likely but not uncommon withdrawal symptoms in more chemically-addicted minds. Therefore, when your body detoxifies your body of substances, the brain’s chemical alterations throughout the process could induce hallucinations.

What is the Drug Withdrawal Symptom Timeline

The duration of withdrawal symptoms varies drastically per individual. People can recover in a matter of days, weeks, or months depending on abuse frequency, severity, and neuronic response. To be precise, withdrawal symptoms can manifest in as little as six hours and last for several months. It’s vital to understand that your withdrawal and recovery timeline is done at your pace. Remember, successful recovery is never determined by recovery duration, but by individual desire and willingness to progress toward your ultimate goal of sobriety.

Acqua Recovery Will Clear Your Recovery Obstacles

drug withdrawal symptoms

Facing addiction is a discouragement no human can conquer alone. But you have the strength within you. Let our compassionate team help you bring it out.

Acqua Recovery is here for you, and we eagerly await the opportunity to clear all your recovery obstacles and make rehab an enjoyable experience. Most importantly, we make individually sustainable sobriety our standard for rehab completion. That’s because Acqua Recovery’s standard is not about going through the motions, it’s about getting a better, happier, and independently sober life.

If you are ready to end substance abuse in your life, now is the time to take the first step toward freedom and healing. Call our facility to start your recovery journey today!

Can Drug Withdrawal Cause a Fever?

Dr. Daniel Pickrell

Dr. Daniel Pickrell
Medical Reviewer

Dr. Pickrell is a board-certified psychiatrist with interests in addiction and psychiatry. He strives to identify the underlying cause of substance use. His understanding of addiction as the overlapping symptoms of biopsychosocial development is the foundation to his care model. He is committed to helping both patients and families understand that addiction is a treatable medical illness. He has been involved in the treatment of addiction for the last 17 years and completed his residency training at the University of Utah.

Drug withdrawal symptoms manifest themselves in a wide variety of ways. However, can withdrawal cause fevers? The short answer is yes. Once you've gone long enough without drug use, the body goes through phases of cleansing, which could potentially include withdrawal-induced fever. This is your body’s response to substance dependency as it exhumes it from your system physically and mentally. The second part of the cleansing process, which can cause fever and sickness, can be the most difficult. Consult the following details about drug-related fevers to gain a better understanding of your condition and why professional rehab is necessary.

How Do Drug Withdrawal Symptoms Cause Fevers?

When you’ve begun the detox phase, fever, chills, and other flu-like symptoms are common short-term side effects. The following reasons detail the different ways drug withdrawal symptoms cause fevers.

Once your brain has developed a certain level of dependency, your body can become sick when the minimum intake requirement is not met. That means withdrawals are in full effect and essentially causing sickness.

This is why professionally administered and monitored detox is required to gradually wean you off highly addictive substances. Attempting to do so alone or cold turkey worsens sickness and even causes death by putting your body into shock. Our team of devoted professionals can help you overcome withdrawal symptoms with minimal illnesses and ailments.

Our bodies are designed to fight off bacteria and foreign agents from the body. Correlatively, once you've achieved a certain level of detox, your body recognizes substances as a foreign agent and seeks to remove them from your system. This can result in chills and fever that are to be closely monitored by a trained physician.

For some who require medication-aided detox, prescriptions can have flu-like side effects such as chills, nausea, and fever. That's why it's important to consult your physician before obtaining any detox-aiding prescription medications. These medications may negatively coincide with previously existing conditions and exacerbate them and addiction if not consulted appropriately.

Drugs have a drastic impact on neuronic functions, altering the chemical makeup of your brain chemistry. Once drug dependency has taken its toll on the mind, stopping drug use reverses that process, again altering the brain's neuronic cell structure. Though the latter is restoring healthy neuronic functions, this expunging of the brain’s substance dependency causes flu-like symptoms up to and including high fever.

Are Withdrawal Fevers Dangerous?

Though fevers can be a common uncomfortable side effect of rehab withdrawals, it doesn't make these occurrences any less important. That is to say, withdrawal-related fevers can be very dangerous if left unmonitored. High fevers associated with withdrawal-based bodily shock can, in some cases, elevate fevers beyond 106.7. When fevers reach these peaks, brain damage and other vital organs become a risk. Again, this is why all drug detox and rehab should be administered and observed by specialists and never self-attempted.

Which Drugs Most Commonly Cause Fever Withdrawals?

Can withdrawal cause fever

Most detox programs are accompanied by ailments or feelings of sickness of varying degrees, depending on the substance of choice. Therefore, fevers may occur depending on individual addiction variables  Here are some of the most common withdrawal fever-inducing drugs.

Heroine is one of the most dangerous drugs in the world, taking very little to overdose or develop dependency. Chemical dependency can even occur after a single use. Because of the highly addictive properties heroin possesses, withdrawals, such as fever, aches, and other ailments can be heightened over other drug withdrawal symptoms.  Thankfully, Acqua Recovery offers heroin addiction in Utah. We have all the tools, care, and support you need to thrive through the most difficult phases of heroin detox.

Most people don't think of alcohol as an addictive substance, but it most certainly is. To take it a step further, it's one of the most addictive substances not talked about and has some of the most troubling withdrawal symptoms. Fever from alcohol withdrawals can be especially troubling because it is expelled as sweat through your pores, potentially exacerbating fever temperature. Speak to an alcohol rehab treatment specialist to learn about drinking’s dangerous chemical alterations and how similar they are to drug withdrawal symptoms.

Meth addiction and dependency is a dangerous addiction that damages the brain in such a way that makes it even more difficult to recover. These lead to meth-induced fever withdrawals. Thankfully, recovery is manageable thanks to high-end treatment methods and prescription-based recovery aids administered by a professional. You don't have to struggle alone. Find your detox and recovery solution from troubling meth withdrawal fevers and other symptoms at Acqua Recovery.

Cocaine is a potent stimulant, commonly referred to as speed. It also is known for its bothersome withdrawal symptoms because of its highly addictive properties. Like other drugs on this list, once you've developed a mental and physical dependence on cocaine, it requires professional cocaine rehab to recover properly. Without which could induce bodily harm up to and including death.

Fentanyl has rapidly become one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs in the entire world. It is also skyrocketing accidental suicide and overdose numbers across the globe. It’s so potent that, like heroin, one use can alter your brain chemistry so severely that you develop immediate dependency. If you or someone you love may be suffering from fentanyl abuse, each use is a ticking time bomb with their life. As long as there is still life, hope exists. Get help for fentanyl addiction by reaching out to a representative today.

A variety of prescription medications contain some of the most addictive and hardest drugs to recover from. Most of these over-the-counter medications are antidepressants, pain relievers, and other central nervous system depressants. Many of which contain the addictive and mentally harmful drug, benzodiazepine. You can get help for prescription medication addiction in Utah at Acqua Recovery.

What are the Most Common Substance Withdrawal Symptoms?

Various substances have different withdrawal symptoms of varying degrees. Genetics, dependence severity, and chemical bodily responses also play a role. However, the following are the most common withdrawal symptoms you will likely experience throughout the detox and rehab process.

When your body is accustomed to overstimulating pleasure cells, stopping substance use has adverse effects on your mood, making you easily irritable. It can be common to feel angry or experience drastic mood swings with no apparent cause due to withdrawal symptoms. This is your body’s way of coping with the lack of substances in your system until your neuronic functions have stabilized to normal frequencies.

Uncontrollable bodily shakes are an uncomfortable side effect of many rehab withdrawal symptoms. This includes a temporary condition known as restless leg syndrome, or RLS, a syndrome that is characterized by involuntary leg movements. Like other uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms, some medications can help alleviate withdrawal-associated tremors if approved by your physician.

It's common to feel intense substance cravings during the beginning phases of detox or rehab. Despite the drugs’ toxicity to your body, your mind’s dependency will make you feel as though you need the drug when you don't. This is one evidence of how substance use changes the neuronic makeup of your brain functions. This withdrawal symptom alone is why professional rehab and accountability are a vital part of recovery. Thanks to unparalleled support, patient attentiveness, and state-of-the-art treatment methods, our caring professionals make sobriety possible for anybody.

Overstimulating your brain’s pleasure center alone elevates anxiety because, for every high, there’s a crash. The same is true when it comes to detoxing drugs and alcohol dependency from your body. When your mind has grown accustomed to this abusive stimulation, stopping drugs has adverse effects on your stress and anxiety levels.

All patients are likely to experience some degree of sleeplessness throughout the detox process. However, thanks to effective natural brain chemical prescriptions that aid sleep deprivation, insomnia is perhaps one of the most treatable withdrawal symptoms. This doesn't make this symptom any easier to deal with. But we can help you battle it with state-of-the-art pharmaceutical breakthroughs. Get a better night’s sleep and relief from insomnia withdrawals by enrolling in substance abuse treatment today.

Hallucinations are less likely but not uncommon withdrawal symptoms in more chemically-addicted minds. Therefore, when your body detoxifies your body of substances, the brain's chemical alterations throughout the process could induce hallucinations.

What is the Drug Withdrawal Symptom Timeline

The duration of withdrawal symptoms varies drastically per individual. People can recover in a matter of days, weeks, or months depending on abuse frequency, severity, and neuronic response. To be precise, withdrawal symptoms can manifest in as little as six hours and last for several months. It's vital to understand that your withdrawal and recovery timeline is done at your pace. Remember, successful recovery is never determined by recovery duration, but by individual desire and willingness to progress toward your ultimate goal of sobriety.

Acqua Recovery Will Clear Your Recovery Obstacles

drug withdrawal symptoms

Facing addiction is a discouragement no human can conquer alone. But you have the strength within you. Let our compassionate team help you bring it out.

Acqua Recovery is here for you, and we eagerly await the opportunity to clear all your recovery obstacles and make rehab an enjoyable experience. Most importantly, we make individually sustainable sobriety our standard for rehab completion. That's because Acqua Recovery’s standard is not about going through the motions, it's about getting a better, happier, and independently sober life.

If you are ready to end substance abuse in your life, now is the time to take the first step toward freedom and healing. Call our facility to start your recovery journey today!

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