Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?

Seven patients with opioid dependence admitted in the de-addiction centre for detoxification developed convulsions and delirium during the withdrawal phase. After ruling out all other possible causes of these complications, opioid withdrawal seemed to emerge as the most likely explanation. The unpre...

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Autores principales: Parkar, S.R., Seethalakshmi, R, Adarkar, S, Kharawala, S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703400
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31604
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author Parkar, S.R.
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description Seven patients with opioid dependence admitted in the de-addiction centre for detoxification developed convulsions and delirium during the withdrawal phase. After ruling out all other possible causes of these complications, opioid withdrawal seemed to emerge as the most likely explanation. The unpredictability of the course of opioid dependence and withdrawal needs to be considered when treating patients with opioid dependence.
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spelling pubmed-29135622010-08-11 Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal? Parkar, S.R. Seethalakshmi, R Adarkar, S Kharawala, S Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Seven patients with opioid dependence admitted in the de-addiction centre for detoxification developed convulsions and delirium during the withdrawal phase. After ruling out all other possible causes of these complications, opioid withdrawal seemed to emerge as the most likely explanation. The unpredictability of the course of opioid dependence and withdrawal needs to be considered when treating patients with opioid dependence. Medknow Publications 2006 /pmc/articles/PMC2913562/ /pubmed/20703400 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31604 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Parkar, S.R.
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Adarkar, S
Kharawala, S
Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
title Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
title_full Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
title_fullStr Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
title_full_unstemmed Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
title_short Is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
title_sort is this ‘complicated’ opioid withdrawal?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703400
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31604
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