Psychosis following Tramadol Withdrawal

  • Ghodratolah Rajabizadeh Md
  • Ali Kheradm
  • Mansoureh Nasirian Md
Publication date
October 2016

Abstract

Tramadol is a centrally acting opioid analgesic used to treat moderate to sever pain. It has more advantage and less opioid adverse effects than conventional opioid analgesia. Background: This article reports a patient with tramadol dependency that had psychosis after tramadol withdrawal. Case Report: By the increase of tramadol usage for relief of chronic pain, tramadol abuse and dependency is increased. Some of tramadol withdrawal symptoms are not related to opioid, for example when the effectiveness is not only on opioid receptors, but on catecholamine and serotonin receptors. So, together with typical symptoms of withdrawal, atypical symptomes had been reported. Psychosis is one of tramadol atypical withdrawal symptoms which subsided a ...

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