Written by Josh Kear, Gordie Sampson and Hillary Lindsey, the song is about a man dealing with the fallout of a relationship like an addiction.

An accompanying music video for the song, directed by Eric Welch, features Farr inside a glass box as he's being submerged into water as it fills up.

[2] The demo's production, consisting only of a piano and drum loop, was what fascinated Farr because of its removal from his given genre, and that he wanted to record it into a country song as if done by the Foo Fighters.

[3] Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song a positive review, saying that "Tyler Farr won't be offended if you double-check the name on the car stereo when "Withdrawals" gets to the chorus.

[8] Farr said in an interview that the visual aesthetics were influenced by the industrial band Nine Inch Nails: "When we were trying to come up with visuals to help explain the emotion, we looked at footage of Trent Reznor performances in NIN music videos, art galleries of people in glass boxes, and then tried our best to put those against the lyrics of the song.