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ABUSE OF MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS

Abuse of monoamine oxidase inhibitors is not common but there are a few cases of addiction in the literature. Most of these patients had an additional diagnosis, either history of past drug abuse or personality disorder and MAOI withdrawal symptoms have been reported. We encountered three patients w...

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Autores principales: Ananth, Jambur, Swartz, J. Randolph, Gadasally, Rangaswamy, Burgoyne, Karl
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2971500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743737
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author Ananth, Jambur
Swartz, J. Randolph
Gadasally, Rangaswamy
Burgoyne, Karl
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description Abuse of monoamine oxidase inhibitors is not common but there are a few cases of addiction in the literature. Most of these patients had an additional diagnosis, either history of past drug abuse or personality disorder and MAOI withdrawal symptoms have been reported. We encountered three patients who received MAOI under psychiatric care. They were all self medicated by increasing the doses on their own, experienced euphoria and visited various physicians to obtain MAOI prescriptions and manifested toxic states. One of our patients had a normal, another a schizoid and the third, an addictive personality. Two were addicted in the past to amphetamine. Therefore, it is important not to prescribe MAOI's to patients who have a history of amphetamine and other addictions.
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spelling pubmed-29715002011-07-08 ABUSE OF MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS Ananth, Jambur Swartz, J. Randolph Gadasally, Rangaswamy Burgoyne, Karl Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Abuse of monoamine oxidase inhibitors is not common but there are a few cases of addiction in the literature. Most of these patients had an additional diagnosis, either history of past drug abuse or personality disorder and MAOI withdrawal symptoms have been reported. We encountered three patients who received MAOI under psychiatric care. They were all self medicated by increasing the doses on their own, experienced euphoria and visited various physicians to obtain MAOI prescriptions and manifested toxic states. One of our patients had a normal, another a schizoid and the third, an addictive personality. Two were addicted in the past to amphetamine. Therefore, it is important not to prescribe MAOI's to patients who have a history of amphetamine and other addictions. Medknow Publications 1995 /pmc/articles/PMC2971500/ /pubmed/21743737 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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title_short ABUSE OF MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS
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