Abuse and misuse of antidepressants

EA Evans, MA Sullivan - Substance abuse and rehabilitation, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… In the last decade, the most commonly cited misused antidepressant is bupropion. Our
literature search of bupropion abuse and misuse yielded a total of 13 articles, two review articles, …

Antidepressants are not drugs of abuse or dependence

FJ Lichtigfeld, MA Gillman - Postgraduate medical journal, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… use of antidepressants by methadone patients is by definition misuse and not abuse. Further,
… symptoms which occasionally follow cessation of antidepressant therapy are not, on their …

[PDF][PDF] Abuses and misuses of benzodiazepines and antidepressents; a review

S Arshad, J Butt, J Iqbal… - Mod Appl Pharm …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Misuse and Abuse of Antidepressants Many of the … antidepressants don’t usually misuse
medication. But many classes of antidepressants have potential for medication abuse especially …

Use and misuse: Antidepressants in general practice

NM Kosky, JGC Rasmussen - International Journal of Psychiatry in …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
… reported use of antidepressants by examining their understanding of antidepressants and the
… In particular, we sought to explore the general usage of antidepressants among a group of …

[HTML][HTML] Abuse of prescription drugs in the context of novel psychoactive substances (NPS): a systematic review

F Schifano, S Chiappini, JM Corkery, A Guirguis - Brain sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
… The management of venlafaxine withdrawal includes the use of other antidepressants (Ads)
or venlafaxine tapering doses [61,62]. Furthermore, venlafaxine/‘baby ecstasy’ abuse has …

[HTML][HTML] A focus on abuse/misuse and withdrawal issues with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): analysis of both the European EMA and the US FAERS …

S Chiappini, R Vickers-Smith, A Guirguis, JM Corkery… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Despite increasing reports, antidepressant (AD) misuse and … available
pharmacovigilance misuse/abuse/dependence/… analysed to identify AD misuse/abuse/dependence/withdrawal …

Medication misuse, abuse and dependence in chronic pain patients

K Kouyanou, CE Pither, S Wessely - Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1997 - Elsevier
… Abstract--We report the prevalence of drug use, misuse, abuse, and dependence in 125 …
the opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants. We also used the term "drug …

Abuse/misuse of prescription medications in older adults

EA Bulut, AT Isik - Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2022 - geriatric.theclinics.com
… For example, for constipation, urinary retention, and abdominal pain that may develop with
the use of tricyclic antidepressants, new symptomatic treatments for the side effects can be …

Overuse of antidepressant drugs for the treatment of depression

J Jureidini, A Tonkin - CNS drugs, 2006 - Springer
antidepressants are prescribed in clinical care.[3] Nevertheless, we accept for the purposes
of this paper that antidepressants … increase in usage of antidepressants in recent years and …

Misuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs to obtain illicit highs: How pharmacists can prevent abuse

S Chiappini, A Guirguis, J Corkery… - The Pharmaceutical …, 2020 - uhra.herts.ac.uk
… It is a second-generation antidepressant acting as a selective inhibitor of catecholamine (ie …
exposures reported to the NPDS indicated intentional misuse and abuse, there was a 91% …