My father is 77 years old... he has been an alcoholic his entire life....but has tapered down in his elder years... he may go months or a year without driniking.... He just recently finished 45 treatments for prostate cancer...a few weeks later he decided to drink some beer and he and my mother got into it and she left. She stayed with members of the family for 5 weeks.. My father stayed at the house alone... I talked to him off and on through this 5 weeks....at times I could tell he had been drinking and other times he seemed perfectly coherent. I talked to him on a Sunday, he did not return my call on a Tuesday night. I went to the house and found him Wednesday in an unbelievable state, i.e., he had vomit caked on both sides of his face, etc., he was in a very bad state. I called an ambulance and they took him to the hospital. I later found out he may have taken approx. 30 xanax pills.... he is precribed 1 mg. up to 4 a day. He has been in the hospital now for 7 days. He still has a minor touch of pnemonia but all his vital signs look good, however he is very disoriented, will not eat, very weak, talks out of his head and very combative toward nursing personnel... they are now thinking he could have mental problems.. does this sound like withdrawals since he is not getting any better?