About 24-72 hours after you stop drinking. Only about 1%-1.5% of people with alcohol withdrawal will have DTs. If so, they may start around this time. They can continue for several days and are ...

What Happens to Your Body During the Stages of Detox and How to Manage It Medically reviewed by Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, MD, ...

Historically, alcohol was sometimes used to control DTs. Some early 20th-century medical literature documents cases where alcohol was prescribed in hospitals to alleviate symptoms in patients who ...