The Hospital Provincial de Castellón publishes a study on a new drug to treat cocaine dependence and mental illness in an international magazine.

Castellón, 2011-October the team pathology Dual of the Castellón Provincial Hospital Consortium has published a study on the results of a new drug for the treatment of cocaine dependence and mental effects that this addiction in an international magazine causes.

Dr. Gonzalo Haro, psychiatrist of the Consortium, said that cocaine dependence is frequently associated with other mental disorders, especially with the limit, the anti-social and the passive-aggressive personality. antipsychotic drugs of last generation.

However, with the medication orally administered daily in tablets or capsules patients show bad completion and lack of adherence to treatment. For this reason, the study led by Dr. Haro has analyzed the effects of the use of antipsychotic injectable long action such as risperidone. When a patient has an addiction and mental illness he is dual pathology.

Although cocaine dependence and personality disorders have no specific drug therapy, have been found benefits trying to both heroin addiction and dual pathology with medicines.

Patients the study participants were treated with conventional treatment and injectable risperidone, which has shown a significant improvement in the impulsivity and anxiety at the time that it has been found in patients a decrease in the desire to consume drugs.

Thus, the study concludes the use of injectable risperidone is effective in the treatment of mental pathology associated with cocaine dependence, with the exception of the borderline personality, showing the worst prognosis due, probably, to emotional instability that characterizes this disorder.