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Mephentermine Dependence:Emerging Trend of Substance Abuse and its Challenges


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1 Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Patiala – 147001, Punjab, India
 

Dependence on Mephentermine, a widely used sympathomimetic pressor agent, is so far not extensively reported. In current report, we describe a male patient consuming extraordinary high amount of Mephentermine who developed psychosis which was successfully treated but relapsed after 5 months. In this background we also tried to highlight this trend of shift from more traditional drugs to new synthetic ones and look into the magnitude of the problem and challenges that lie ahead of us.


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Dependence, Mephentermine, Psychosis, Relapse, Trend.
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Authors

Prabhdeep Singh
Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Patiala – 147001, Punjab, India
Balwant S. Sidhu
Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Patiala – 147001, Punjab, India
Rajnish Raj
Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Patiala – 147001, Punjab, India
Neeraj Mittal
Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Patiala – 147001, Punjab, India

Abstract


Dependence on Mephentermine, a widely used sympathomimetic pressor agent, is so far not extensively reported. In current report, we describe a male patient consuming extraordinary high amount of Mephentermine who developed psychosis which was successfully treated but relapsed after 5 months. In this background we also tried to highlight this trend of shift from more traditional drugs to new synthetic ones and look into the magnitude of the problem and challenges that lie ahead of us.


Keywords


Dependence, Mephentermine, Psychosis, Relapse, Trend.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/ijmds%2F2019%2F178524