International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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National Rehabilitation Center (NRC), Shakhbout, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Carisoprodol Abuse a Re-emerging Issue: Perspective from Drug Rehabilitation in the UAE
  Author(s): Abuelgasim Elrasheed*, Simon Elliott, Ahmed Yousif and Samya Al Mamari
  
  Toxicological monitoring at the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for drug addiction prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of both inpatients and outpatients, has highlighted an increase in the use of carisoprodol and/or its metabolite, meprobamate. Due to their status as more historic drugs of abuse and reductions in their prescribing/marketing authorisation, neither substance is often included in routine drug screening. These data from routine analysis over a prolonged period therefore provide new and important information to support international concerns around a re-emergence of these substances as drugs of abuse. Furthermore, the toxicity risks of their reported abuse context with concomitant use of other central nervous system depressant drugs (such as benzodiazepines and opioids), demonstrate a need for toxicology laboratories and investi.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2329-9096.24.12.733

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