1. Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome-Alcohol Alert No. 05-1989
Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal. Pharmacological treatment of alcohol intoxication, withdrawal and dependence: An improved quantitative system for assessing the acute alcoholic psychoses and related states (TSA and SSA) In:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa05.htm

2. Ambrose Bierce, "the Old Gringo": Fact, Fiction and Fantasy
His two sons were dead, one by suicide after a failed love affair, and the other from acute alcohol intoxication; additionally, he had, by his own choice, been long separated from his wife. He said that on the forenoon of January 10 the...
http://ojinaga.com/bierce/

3. Biological Mechanisms of Addiction
Acute withdrawal syndrome [alcohol] Following the abrupt cessation of heavy drinking, compensatory mechanisms attempting to overcome alcohol's depressing effect on glutamate systems have the effect of increasing glutamate function.
http://www.alcohol-drug.com/biology.htm