Seizures, illicit drugs, and ethanol. Current neurology and neuroscience reports [Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep] Journal article | | Title | Seizures, illicit drugs, and ethanol. | | Author(s) | Brust JC | | Institution | Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10037, USA. jcb2@columbia.edu | | Source | Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2008 Jul; 8(4):333-8. | | Abstract | Recreational substance users are at risk for seizures by indirect mechanisms, including cerebral trauma, central nervous system infection, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, and metabolic derangements such as hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, and renal failure. Drugs and ethanol can also cause seizures more directly, either as a feature of intoxication (eg, psychostimulants) or of withdrawal (eg, sedatives, including ethanol). In any patient with a seizure, clinicians should consider illicit drug or ethanol use. Seizures in known alcoholics or illicit drug users require workup to exclude treatable coexisting conditions. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 18590618 |
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