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Review of cariprazine in management of psychiatric illness.

Ment Health Clin

September 2017

Director, PGY-1 and PGY-2 Residency Programs, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Psychiatry, Chillicothe VA Medical Center, Chillicothe, Ohio, and Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio.

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are severe and debilitating psychiatric disorders. Despite the availability of numerous antipsychotic drugs, many patients still experience poor outcomes and treatment-limiting adverse side effects. Cariprazine is a novel antipsychotic with unique pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties.

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Purpose: The available evidence for the use of pregabalin as adjunctive therapy in the discontinuation of benzodiazepines is reviewed.

Summary: Pregabalin has been studied as an adjunctive pharmacologic treatment for the discontinuation of long-term benzodiazepine use. Unlike carbamazepine, pregabalin has little potential for drug interactions, and its adverse effects are mostly mild and transient.

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