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Pentazocine Abuse and Problems of Withdrawal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jerrold S. Maxmen ,
Peter M. Silberfarb  and
Eric Plakun
Jerrold S. Maxmen
Affiliation:
Dartmouth Medical School; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Director of Hospital Services, Sound View-Throgs Neck Community Mental Health Center, Bronx, N.Y., 10461 U.S.A
Peter M. Silberfarb
Affiliation:
Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Hanover, N.H. 03755, U.S.A
Eric Plakun
Affiliation:
Black River Health Center, Cavendish, Vermont, 05142 U.S.A
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Extract

This report describes a patient who developed a peculiar movement disorder and delirium after receiving hypnotics and phenothiazines during pentazocine withdrawal.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 4 , April 1975 , pp. 370 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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