Skip to content

Adolescent medicine: state of the art reviews

ISSN 1934-4287

1 paper in the library · publishing 2015

Papers

Sort Most recent Most cited

Generation Z: Adolescent Xenobiotic Abuse in the 21st Century.

Adolescent medicine: state of the art reviews December 1, 2015 W. Eggleston, C. Stork

NMDA receptor antagonists include the prescription medication ketamine, the illicit xenobiotics PCP, MXE, and other novel PCP analogs, and the OTC medication DXM. The NMDA receptor antagonist most commonly abused by adolescents in the United States is DXM. These xenobiotics cause dissociative effects by non-competitively inhibiting the action of glutamate at the NMDA receptor. Additionally,...