Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol
The Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (often called CIWA or CIWA-Ar (an updated version)), is a scale used to measure alcohol withdrawal symptoms. The scale lists ten common symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.  Based on how bad a person's symptoms are, each of these is assigned a number.  All ten numbers are added up to make one final score.  The highest possible score is 67.  Higher scores are a sign of more severe alcohol withdrawal: