TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Pheniramine dependence: A case report
JO  - Thinking man: the journal of psychiatry and neurological sciences
A1  - Sahin, S.K.
A1  - Gumuslu, A.
A1  - Kaya, D.
A1  - Elboga, G.
A1  - Altindaǧ, A.
SP  - 281
EP  - 282
VL  - 32
IS  - 3
N2  - Drugs being abused may be benzodiazepines from the group of psychotropics or rarely antidepressants and antipsychotics. There are also rare cases of abuse of medicines containing ephedrine/pseudoephedrine or pheniramine, which are not only prescribed by psychiatrists. Pheniramine is an H1 histamine antagonist with low sedative activity. In this article, we present a 35-year-old woman who started to use pheniramine due to depressive symptoms and insomnia but developed dependence and was hospitalized in a psychiatry clinic. According to her medical history, she had been taking venlafaxine 150mg per day for major depression for one year. The patient was treated with 7 ECT sessions combined with pharmacotherapy in our clinic for 21 days. Risks and possible mechanisms that may contribute to the development of pheniramine dependence in this patient are discussed under 3 headings: Being a health care professional, self-medication of psychiatric problems, and the mechanism of action of pheniramine as an H1 histamine antagonist. © 2019 Yerkure Tanitim ve Yayincilik Hizmetleri A.S.. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1018-8681
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/DAJPNS.2019.00040
ID  - ref1
ER  -