Zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report

OBJECTIVE: Zolpidem is a non-benzodiazepine hypnotic drug for treatment of insomnia. It has been introduced as a lower potential agent for dependency and abusive effects. CASE SUMMARY: In this study, the reported case was a 62 years old female patient suffering simultaneously with Major Depressive D...

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Autores principales: Pourshams, Maryam, Malakouti, Seyed Kazem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25012623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2008-2231-22-54
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description OBJECTIVE: Zolpidem is a non-benzodiazepine hypnotic drug for treatment of insomnia. It has been introduced as a lower potential agent for dependency and abusive effects. CASE SUMMARY: In this study, the reported case was a 62 years old female patient suffering simultaneously with Major Depressive Disorder and Opium Dependency. After abrupt discontinuation of zolpidem, 570 mg per day, she exhibited severe withdrawal symptoms, led her to be admitted to emergency department. CONCLUSIONS: Zolpidem has a potency to be abused with high risk of dependency and withdrawal syndromes particularly among elderly patients with comorbid anxiety/depressive symptoms/disorders.
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spelling pubmed-42303422014-11-14 Zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report Pourshams, Maryam Malakouti, Seyed Kazem Daru Case Report OBJECTIVE: Zolpidem is a non-benzodiazepine hypnotic drug for treatment of insomnia. It has been introduced as a lower potential agent for dependency and abusive effects. CASE SUMMARY: In this study, the reported case was a 62 years old female patient suffering simultaneously with Major Depressive Disorder and Opium Dependency. After abrupt discontinuation of zolpidem, 570 mg per day, she exhibited severe withdrawal symptoms, led her to be admitted to emergency department. CONCLUSIONS: Zolpidem has a potency to be abused with high risk of dependency and withdrawal syndromes particularly among elderly patients with comorbid anxiety/depressive symptoms/disorders. BioMed Central 2014-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4230342/ /pubmed/25012623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2008-2231-22-54 Text en Copyright © 2014 Pourshams and Malakouti; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report
title_fullStr Zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report
title_short Zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report
title_sort zolpidem abuse and dependency in an elderly patient with major depressive disorder: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25012623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2008-2231-22-54
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