Hypersomnic diazepam abstinence syndrome: a case report
Holt, R.J.; Pérez-Cruet, J.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 74(9): 262-264
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 6963915 Document Number: 701148
A 25 years old patient is described who had a 5 year history of abusing diazepam (up to 100 mg./day). He was evaluated and treated for a diazepam abstinence syndrome, which uncharacteristically consisted largely of hypersomnia. Successful outpatient treatment was obtained using predominantly tapering doses of prazepam over a 15 day period. Several explanations were proposed to clarify this unusual reaction. The most intriguing contingency offered is that this reaction represented a compensated diazepam induced cyclothymic (hypomanic) personality disorder.
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