Case report on the administration of an eighty milligram diazepam injection without respiratory depression

Authors
Morteza Abdar Esfahani 1
Arash Beiki 2
Sedigheh Asgarian 1
1 Department of Cardiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Nowadays one of the most challenging problems in Medicine is addiction - addiction to sedative drugs such as benzodiazepines. In this article, we are going to describe a case of diazepam addiction that has tolerated a high dose of intravenous diazepam.
Keywords
Addiction
diazepam
respiratory depression
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Advanced Biomedical Research
Volume 2014, December
December 2014
Pages 1-3