Patient/caregiver was educated on the side-effects of using doral as follows:
Abuse potential
- Doral intake can be habit-forming and carries an abuse potential. The risk for addiction and abuse can be even higher, especially in individuals with history of substance abuse.
Short-term memory loss
- Doral carries the risk of inducing temporary short-term memory loss and confusion, when you wake up the following morning, thus compromising safety and leading to falls and accidents.
- Individuals taking doral can develop anterograde amnesia, which is a compromised ability to form new memories after the intake of medication.
Tolerance and addiction
- Individuals using doral can develop tolerance to the dose in due course of time, thus blunting the therapeutic effect.
- The dose of doral should probably be enhanced at this point, to derive the same therapeutic benefit, thus increasing the risk for addiction.
- The risk for addiction is even more in individuals with history of substance/drug abuse, as the craving for the desired effect in these individuals will be high.
