Drug and alcohol dependence
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Drug Alcohol Depend · Feb 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialCharacterizing the subjective, psychomotor, and physiological effects of oral propoxyphene in non-drug-abusing volunteers.
The subjective, psychomotor, and physiological effects of a widely prescribed prescription opioid, propoxyphene, have not been studied in a population of non-drug-abusing people. The drug also has potential for abuse and it was of interest in the present study to determine if the drug had any abuse liability-related subjective effects in this population. ⋯ There was a lack of statistically significant subjective effects of propoxyphene in the group as a whole, including a propoxyphene dose that was twice as high as the typical clinically-prescribed dose of 100 mg. However, there were some subjects who did report effects, consistent with the notion that patients differ in their sensitivity to opioid effects.