multiple prescription drug abuse and salt craving in a psychotic patient: a case report from a teaching hospital in jordan

conclusions multiple prescription drug abuse and salt/salty food addiction usually reflects a personality of addiction, which leads to harmful use and dependence. case presentation a 28-year-old woman presented with tetany due to hypocalcemia, hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia. she had a history of laxative and diuretic abuse, and salt craving. psychiatric evaluation revealed a disturbed social history with masked depression that necessitated treatment. introduction diuretics and laxative abuse as a means of purging is common in patients with bulimia nervosa and there may be an underestimation of the true prevalence of diuretic abuse, as some are also available without prescription.