Loperamide Dependence: A Case Report

Loperamide Dependency: A Case Report

BACKGROUND Loperamide is used as an antidiarrheal drug and is available over-the-counter. It cannot pass the blood-brain barrier and it does not have a considerable abuse potential. It can lead to dangerous cardiac arrhythmia. CASE REPORT Herein, we report a 35-year-old man with a 13-year history of abusing opioids who had undergone detoxification for four times during this period. He underwe...

A Heart-Wrenching Case of Loperamide Toxicity

Case Report Loperamide Induced Torsades de Pointes: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Abuse of over the counter drugs often gets overlooked by health care providers. Loperamide is one such over the counter drug that is often abused by drug addicts.We present here a case of a youngmale attaining euphoria from takingmassive doses of loperamide. He developed Torsades de Pointes and subsequent cardiac arrest. We found similarities in the progression of myocardial electrical conducti...

Lorazepam Dependence : a Case Report

Mr. G., a 38 year old married male fiom a urban middle socioeconomic nuclear family, employed as a bank officer, came to the Psychiatry Walk in clinic at National institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences with the complaint of not being able to discontinue taking lorazepam for one and a half years. There was no contributory family or any other past history. After a job transfer about 2 years...

Secondary Prophylaxis of Docetaxel Induced Diarrhea with Loperamide: Case Report

Diarrhea is a common adverse event of docetaxel with 20%-40% of incidence and severe diarrhea occurs in 5%-6%. Several treatment guidelines for chemotherapy induced diarrhea (CID) exist, however the prophylaxis for that is not well known. We describe a new prophylactic approach for the CID with loperamide. A 72-yr-old male patient with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer developed diarrhea repe...

Case Report Olanzapine Dependence

Olanzapine is the second-generation antipsychotic most frequently prescribed for treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. Its side effects include sedation, weight gain, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. It is considered to be devoid of any abuse or dependence potential. We report a case of olanzapine dependence in a patient with past history of multiple substance dependence (...