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Something old, something new: a successful case of meprobamate withdrawal.
BMJ Case Rep
February 2016
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK.
Meprobamate, a benzodiazepine-like drug, was commonly prescribed for anxiety in the 1960s and 1970s, but fell out of favour, at least in part, due to the risk of dependence, for which there is little published evidence to guide clinical management. We discuss a 70-year-old man with a 45-year history of meprobamate dependency and multiple failed previous withdrawal attempts who was successfully withdrawn from meprobamate using diazepam during a 2-week inpatient stay on a specialist Addictions ward. An appropriate diazepam dose was established using the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment scale for benzodiazepines (CIWA-B).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhenprobamate dependence: a case report.
Addict Behav
June 2015
Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Psychiatry Department, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Phenprobamate (3-phenylpropylcarbamate) is a centrally acting muscle relaxant with mild sedative and anticonvulsant effects. Muscle relaxants can enhance and prolong the effect of narcotic drugs and enable to obtain same effect with a smaller amount of alcohol or illicit substance. Almost all of the centrally acting muscle relaxants have varying sedative effects on which their abuse potential mainly depends.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarisoprodol: update on abuse potential and legal status.
South Med J
November 2012
GV (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, Mental Health Service, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi 29216, USA.
Carisoprodol is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant of which meprobamate, a controlled substance, is the primary active metabolite. The abuse of carisoprodol has increased dramatically in the last several years. A withdrawal syndrome occurs in some patients who abruptly cease carisoprodol intake.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The difference between depression and melancholia: two distinct conditions that were combined into a single category in DSM-III].
Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi
January 2013
Department of Psychiatry, Toranomon Hospital.
In DSM-III (1980), depressive states of neurosis and those of manic-depressive illness (melancholia or endogenous depression) were combined into the single category "major depression," which is the progenitor of "major depressive disorder" in DSM-IV-TR (2000). According to Hamilton, the word "depression" is used in three different ways. In common speech, it is used to describe the state of sadness that all persons experience when they lose something of importance to them.
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