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Does intake of ADD and anxiety medication by an alcoholic have adverse effects?
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My son is an alcoholic, but I havent seen any evidence of his using since two weeks when he came home. He takes add meds and anxiety meds. He is obsessed with looking at rocks/ says he is trying to find fossils, knows there is contamination,and a few minutes ago said he found dinosaur bones from a random collection of rocks around our house. Not sure what is causing this nor what to do. He has not made a psych appt since he came back two weeks ago. Is he overmedicating himself or this a long term effect of his past serious drinking?
gpt
well, the behavioral changes that you have been noticing in your son for the past few days could possibly be due to chronic usage of alcohol and withdrawal (delirium), multi drug abuse, specially the anti anxiety medications if  it is a benzodiazepine then that itself can aggravate the acute confusional state that he is in due to alcohol withdrawal. He requires immedediate hospitalization, it is very important to rule out possible organic causes (? head injury), which can also cause rapid onset behavioral changes.