I never knew that hospitals did drug withdrawls on the same floor. Where I go they just moved substance abuse to the same hospital so all psych services are in the same building but substance abuse is a separate area. They have gero-psych, mood disorders, a transitional unit that I don't know a lot about except that people are always glad to come up to mood disorders from there, and I think 2 more traditional wings or floors. I know the transitional unit is fairly small; I have no idea about the other 2 floors but I assume they are larger groups of people just because I know there are about 80 psych beds in the hospital total.

I've seen a lot of people in caffeine and nicotine withdrawl (it's a 6th floor unit so no smoking and no smoking area and they keep everyone off caffeine) and sometimes people are coming off benzos because the unit dr doesn't like them much and takes them off those and moves them to something else but never anyone severely withdrawing. I've seen that professionally and it's hard to watch so I imagine that some people would be having a rough time of it with that to cope with.