Acute Psychosis Related to Baclofen in a Patient Treated for Binge Eating Disorder Highlights the Urgent Need to

Océane Ricoux1, Louise Carton, Olivier Ménard

  • 1CHU Lille, Department of Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine, Lille, France CHU Lille, Department of Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine, Lille, France, Univ. Lille, INSERM U1171 'Degenerative and Vascular Cognitive Disorders,' Lille, France, CHU Lille, Department of PharmacologyLille, France and CHU Lille, Addictovigilance CenterLille, France louise.carton@univ-lille.fr CHU Lille, Department of Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine, Lille, France and Univ. Lille, CNRS UMR 9193, SCALab PsyCHIC Team, Lille, France Univ. Lille, INSERM U1171 'Degenerative and Vascular Cognitive Disorders,' Lille, France, CHU Lille, Department of PharmacologyLille, France and CHU Lille, Addictovigilance CenterLille, France Univ. Lille, INSERM U1171 'Degenerative and Vascular Cognitive Disorders,' Lille, France, CHU Lille, Department of Pharmacology, Lille, France and CHU Lille, Addictovigilance Center, Lille, France Univ. Lille, INSERM U1171 'Degenerative and Vascular Cognitive Disorders,' Lille, France, CHU Lille, Department of Pharmacology, Lille, France and CHU Lille, Addictovigilance and Pharmacovigilance Center, Lille, France CHU Lille, Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Lille, France and Univ. Lille, CNRS UMR 9193, SCALab PsyCHIC Team, Lille, France.

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