Benoit Schreck, Marion Istvan, Marylène Guerlais, Edouard-Jules Laforgue, Marie Gérardin, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Aurélie Aquizerate, Caroline Victorri-Vigneau
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Abstract
Background: Slamming has been increasing internationally for ten years, mostly among men who have sex with men. Slamming consists of injecting psychostimulants (including new psychoactive substances-NPS) intravenously to increase sexual performance.
Objective: The objective of our work was to analyse drug-drug interactions related to slamming.
Methods: Drawing upon a reported case of a slam session describing hour by hour the intake of substances, we performed a drug-interaction analysis using international references and a comprehensive literature review. High doses of sildenafil, GBL and 3-MMC were reported during the 40-hour session described. The specific drug-interaction research was performed using 9 references and 65 of the 209 records identified in the literature review.
Results: Pharmacological data regarding nonmedicated substances were scarce. Regarding pharmacodynamics, the risk was high at the cardiovascular level and was related to the vasodilatation effect of sildenafil and the adrenergic and serotoninergic properties of stimulants; this risk may increase with usual treatment (involving other vasodilators or central depressants). Regarding pharmacokinetics, the major interactions concerned metabolism by CYP3A4 and CYP2C9, leading to interactions, particularly with HIV medication.
Conclusion: This innovative work provides pharmacological information on drugs that are commonly used in slamming, allowing the development of effective medical-management protocols and the provision of risk-reduction counselling.
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Current Drug Metabolism aims to cover all the latest and outstanding developments in drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, and drug disposition. The journal serves as an international forum for the publication of full-length/mini review, research articles and guest edited issues in drug metabolism. Current Drug Metabolism is an essential journal for academic, clinical, government and pharmaceutical scientists who wish to be kept informed and up-to-date with the most important developments. The journal covers the following general topic areas: pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and most importantly drug metabolism.
More specifically, in vitro and in vivo drug metabolism of phase I and phase II enzymes or metabolic pathways; drug-drug interactions and enzyme kinetics; pharmacokinetics, pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling, and toxicokinetics; interspecies differences in metabolism or pharmacokinetics, species scaling and extrapolations; drug transporters; target organ toxicity and interindividual variability in drug exposure-response; extrahepatic metabolism; bioactivation, reactive metabolites, and developments for the identification of drug metabolites. Preclinical and clinical reviews describing the drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics of marketed drugs or drug classes.