Quetiapine Misuse and Abuse: Is it an Atypical Paradigm of Drug Seeking Behavior?

What it found

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Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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3. Acute Quetiapine Intoxication: Relationship Between Ingested Dose, Serum Concentration and Clinical Presentation-Structured Literature Review and Analysis.Journal of xenobiotics · 2024
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4. Irrational Use of Medications among Adults with Insomnia: An Observational Study at a Sleep Clinic in Mexico.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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5. Prescription patterns of quetiapine for multiple drug abuse, depression, and psychosis: A retrospective study.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2023
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6. The prevalence of off-label use and supratherapeutic blood levels of outpatient psychotropic medication in suicidal adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023
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7. Norbuprenorphine Interferences in Urine Drug Testing LC-MS-MS Confirmation Methods from Quetiapine Metabolites.Journal of analytical toxicology · 2022
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8. Survey of noncontrolled medication misuse patterns.The mental health clinician · 2022
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9. Examination of multiple drug arrests reported to the Maine Diversion Alert Program.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2022
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10. Off-label and investigational drugs in the treatment of alcohol use disorder: A critical review.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022
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11. Quetiapine, Misuse and Dependency: A Case-Series of Questions to a Norwegian Network of Drug Information Centers.Drug, healthcare and patient safety · 2021
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12. Current and potential pharmacological treatment options for insomnia in patients with alcohol use disorder in recovery.Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2020
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13. Focus on Clozapine Withdrawal- and Misuse-Related Cases as Reported to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Database.Brain sciences · 2020
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14. Neurochemical Evidence of Preclinical and Clinical Reports on Target-Based Therapy in Alcohol Used Disorder.Neurochemical research · 2020
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15. Abuse of Prescription Drugs in the Context of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS): A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2018
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Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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