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Carisoprodol Should Be a Controlled Substance
Ronald J. Dougherty, MD
State University of New York Syracuse
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(7):582.
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I read with great interest the letter by Chop1 regarding carisoprodol (Soma), in which the question was raised as to whether this drug should be a controlled substance. I also read with great interest the previous article by Rust et al2 on the same subject. As a physician specializing in addiction medicine, I have no doubt that carisoprodol and its metabolite, meprobamate, should be tightly controlled.
Over the past 24 years of my being involved in the field of chemical dependency, I can truthfully say that somewhere between 10% and 15% of patients referred to me for prescription drug misuse are misusing carisoprodol or meprobamate. Approximately 60% of referrals in 1993 were for abuse of a combination of hydrocodon bitartrate and acetaminophen (Vicodin, Lortab).
Six months ago, I treated a patient who had been a long-term abuser of carisoprodol. This 35-year-old woman had never abused alcohol, cocaine, or
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