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Nestor Szerman1, Francisco Arias2, Jaime Algorta3
1Department of Psychiatry. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital, Madrid.
Abstract:
The depressive disorder coexists in a high prevalence with a substance-related disorder, which is asso- ciated with a worst prognosis. The therapeutic interventions for this co-morbidity lack of the appropriate scientific sup- port. The existing evidence suggest that the currently avail- able anti-depressive drugs are of minor efficacy in this group of patients. An alternative would be the use of different drugs with distinctive neurobiological mechanism of action. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical develop- ment of a series of patients affected by this comorbidity un- der treatment with tianeptine under usual clinical practices.
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