Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to describe the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the treatment of methamphetamine-induced withdrawal delirium and craving in a single case. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old male presented to the hospital in Fars province, Iran, with Methamphetamine-Ind...

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Autores principales: Ahmadi, Jamshid, Ekramzadeh, Sara, Pridmore, Saxby
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834801
http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-1793
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description INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to describe the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the treatment of methamphetamine-induced withdrawal delirium and craving in a single case. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old male presented to the hospital in Fars province, Iran, with Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium who responded to ECT. CONCLUSIONS: The electroconvulsive therapy can be a suitable option for the treatment of methamphetamine withdrawal delirium and craving. Also, it can be usefully employed in these very serious conditions which may represent a risk to life.
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spelling pubmed-47333052016-02-01 Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy Ahmadi, Jamshid Ekramzadeh, Sara Pridmore, Saxby Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci Case Report INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to describe the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the treatment of methamphetamine-induced withdrawal delirium and craving in a single case. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old male presented to the hospital in Fars province, Iran, with Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium who responded to ECT. CONCLUSIONS: The electroconvulsive therapy can be a suitable option for the treatment of methamphetamine withdrawal delirium and craving. Also, it can be usefully employed in these very serious conditions which may represent a risk to life. Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2015-12-23 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4733305/ /pubmed/26834801 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-1793 Text en Copyright © 2015, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy
title Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy
title_full Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy
title_fullStr Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy
title_short Remission of Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium and Craving After Electroconvulsive Therapy
title_sort remission of methamphetamine-induced withdrawal delirium and craving after electroconvulsive therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834801
http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-1793
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