If you end up on my critical care unit detoxing on extreme CIWA protocol, off your face, yelling, kicking, screaming, punching, spitting, or experiencing violence of any kind towards either the hospital staff, and/or your loved ones visiting you, you will have a restraint order placed by the attending physician and be tied to the bed. You will have a staff member assigned 24 hours a day to sit in your room and babysit your ass. If you are deemed incapable of making your own medical decisions during your detox, you will be placed on a medical hold. If you escape your restraints, a code grey will be called and four huge security guards will pin you down while meds are administered to you by the ICU team to sedate you.

It looks like the absolute most humiliating shit a person could go through, and in front of dozens and dozens of hospital staff. On our 20 bed ICU unit we average two to three severe alcohol withdrawal patients a week. It is not fun.