Among the patients referred to the Headache Centre in Parma between 1979 and 1984, 95 (5\%) were found to be drug abusers, having taken analgesics every day for at least a year. They had had chronic headache for at least 12 months: migraine with interparoxysmal headache in 83.1\% and chronic tension headache in 16.9\%. Almost all patients were combination-analgesics abusers, and only about a quarter of them were taking ergotamine. The largest single factor favouring the transformation of episodic headache into a chronic one was the drug abuse. The patients studied during 1984 were subjected to detoxification with 6 months' follow-up study. Our investigation suggests that all instant-relief drugs can sustain and possibly initiate a chronic headache.
Drug abuse in chronic headache: a clinico-epidemiologic study / Granella, Franco; S., Farina; G., Malferrari; Manzoni, Gian Camillo. - In: CEPHALALGIA. - ISSN 0333-1024. - 7:(1987), pp. 15-19.
Drug abuse in chronic headache: a clinico-epidemiologic study.
GRANELLA, Franco;MANZONI, Gian Camillo
1987-01-01
Abstract
Among the patients referred to the Headache Centre in Parma between 1979 and 1984, 95 (5\%) were found to be drug abusers, having taken analgesics every day for at least a year. They had had chronic headache for at least 12 months: migraine with interparoxysmal headache in 83.1\% and chronic tension headache in 16.9\%. Almost all patients were combination-analgesics abusers, and only about a quarter of them were taking ergotamine. The largest single factor favouring the transformation of episodic headache into a chronic one was the drug abuse. The patients studied during 1984 were subjected to detoxification with 6 months' follow-up study. Our investigation suggests that all instant-relief drugs can sustain and possibly initiate a chronic headache.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
