title: [Drugs diverted from reaching drug addicts].
abstract: To divert from use of psychotropic drugs can take from of a classic toxicomania, sometimes isolated, frequently in association with other toxics: alcohol, opioids. Drugs frequently concerned are anxiolytics: benzodiazepines with a short half-life. Use during more than four months, dependent personality, are risk-factors. Among the other psychotropics, only certain stimulant antidepressants, like amineptine, justify of a particular attention. Drugs of which indication is not psychotropic can induce abuses: more than morphine itself, drugs including opioids or relating are in great demand by drug-addicts: antalgic like dextropropoxyphene or anticough like Neocodion, this one off the prescription. Anorectics, ephedrine vasoconstrictors and beta-stimulants abuse remains frequent.
authors.affiliation: Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale et de thérapeutique Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Paris.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Poirier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ginestet
mesh_terms: D000662:Amphetamines; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents; D006801:Humans; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders
chemical_list: D000662:Amphetamines; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
vernacular_title: Médicaments détournés de leur usage à des fins toxicomaniaques.