Episode 17: Gabapentin Abuse




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Summary: On today’s Medication Minute, we will be discussing gabapentin, including its pharmacology, use in management of psychiatric diagnoses, and it’s more recent growing potential for abuse. Gabapentin is a gamma-aminobutyric acid analog that is was approved for use as an antiepileptic in 1993 and for post-herpetic neuralgia in 2004, but is also used off label […]