Mephentermine dependence with psychosis

Mental illness in elite weightlifters

“…Both case reports concerned a male professional weightlifter, one aged 31 and one aged 23 years old [28, 29]. No further demographic information is provided by Sawant and Vispute [28], however Gehlawat et al describe their case as being a graduate and unmarried [29]. Both papers documented examples of the athlete in question using Mephentermine, an alpha adrenergic receptor agonist used clinically as a vasopressor agent to maintain blood pressure in hypotension [30] and which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at present [31].…”

“…Both case reports concerned a male professional weightlifter, one aged 31 and one aged 23 years old [28, 29]. No further demographic information is provided by Sawant and Vispute [28], however Gehlawat et al describe their case as being a graduate and unmarried [29].…”

“…Both papers documented examples of the athlete in question using Mephentermine, an alpha adrenergic receptor agonist used clinically as a vasopressor agent to maintain blood pressure in hypotension [30] and which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at present [31]. Both describe a history of Mephentermine dependence spanning a two to three year period, with emergence of an acute psychotic episode following increased use over a two to three month period [28, 29].…”

“…The case reports did not clearly meet more than four of the eight criteria in the JBI checklist [24]. Both case reports did not include sufficient, if any, demographic and past medical history relevant to the weightlifter in question [28, 29], although both reports did give a clear account of the psychopathology at presentation and the investigations carried out to exclude additional physical harm and differential diagnoses. The intervention described by Sawant & Vispute could have been more detailed [28] and both case reports could have provided more explicit take-home messages of learning for clinicians in particular [28, 29].…”

Mephentermine Dependence: Emerging Trend of Substance Abuse and its Challenges

“…[1] Our search in literature shows that only seven cases of Mephentermine dependence with or without psychosis from India have been reported till now and further, young people are misusing this substance for the purpose of better physical performance in competitive sports, body building or as alternate drug abuse. [2][3][4] In current report, we report a middle aged man with Mephentermine dependence injecting very high doses of substance that developed psychosis, was successfully treated but reported back with relapse.…”