[Initial experience with clotiapine in the treatment of heroin addiction].
Experience in treating heroin addicts with a major neuroleptic, Chlothiapin (Entumin Sandoz) is described. Treatment was begun on 16 cases and completed on 12. Slight signs of asthenia appeared in three cases. All patients completing the treatment achieved a normal sleeping pattern and reduced anxiety. Thus after a 7 day course patients could be transferred to a specialist drug addiction centre.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012890:Sleep / Q000187:drug effects
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines
Prima esperienza con clotiapina nel trattamento dell'eroinomane.