A CASE REPORT OF CARISOPRODOL DEPENDENCE

Carisoprodol is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant whose active metabolite is meprobamate. There have been few reports of carisoprodol abuse from India. This is a report of a case with carisoprodol dependence. The patient also had poly substance abuse of alcohol, nicotine, benzodiazepine an...

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Autores principales: Venugopal, D., Deepak, G., Murali, N., Kumar, K.B., Sharma, P.S.V.N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407939
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author Venugopal, D.
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Murali, N.
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description Carisoprodol is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant whose active metabolite is meprobamate. There have been few reports of carisoprodol abuse from India. This is a report of a case with carisoprodol dependence. The patient also had poly substance abuse of alcohol, nicotine, benzodiazepine and dextropropoxyphene. Although no specific withdrawal syndrome could be identified, the patient had symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, restlessness and craving. Clinicians must be aware of the dependence potential of carisoprodol and need to be cautious in its prescription, especially in view of its free availability in the Indian market.
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spelling pubmed-29577162011-03-15 A CASE REPORT OF CARISOPRODOL DEPENDENCE Venugopal, D. Deepak, G. Murali, N. Kumar, K.B. Sharma, P.S.V.N. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Carisoprodol is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant whose active metabolite is meprobamate. There have been few reports of carisoprodol abuse from India. This is a report of a case with carisoprodol dependence. The patient also had poly substance abuse of alcohol, nicotine, benzodiazepine and dextropropoxyphene. Although no specific withdrawal syndrome could be identified, the patient had symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, restlessness and craving. Clinicians must be aware of the dependence potential of carisoprodol and need to be cautious in its prescription, especially in view of its free availability in the Indian market. Medknow Publications 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC2957716/ /pubmed/21407939 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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