Ovid: Naltrexone for the Treatment of Trichotillomania: A Case Report
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Editors: Despite the continued DSM-IV classification of trichotillomania as an impulse control disorder, its nosologic status remains controversial. Like obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), serotonin selective reuptake inhibiting antidepressants (SSRIs) have shown some efficacy in treating trichotillomania, [1-3] but the self-injurious nature of the core behavior and the pleasure that patients report to be associated with the behavior [4] serve to distinguish it from typical OCD.
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