Muscle Relaxants: Sedatives Often Under the Radar
The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report, Volume 8, Number 3&4, May 2020
https://www.thecarlatreport.com/newsletter-issue/catrv8n3-4/
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information
Topics: Clinical practice | Deprescribing | Opioids | Pain | Pharmacology | polypharmacy | prescribing patterns | Risk Management
Michael Weaver, MD, FASAM.
Professor and medical director at the Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addictions at the University of Texas Medical School. Author of Addiction Treatment (Carlat Publishing, 2017).
Dr. Weaver has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Muscle relaxants encompass medications with different mechanisms of action—many of which have been used for decades. Yet most are sedating, can have significant side effects, and can interact with opioids and other substances to worsen CNS and respiratory depression.
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