Keywords
benzodiazepine
pharmaceutical compounded preparation
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Abstract
The increase of pharmaceutical drugs formulations consumption by Brazilian population demanded a greater action from the official laboratory to verify the conformity of these products, as the majority of them are composed by anxiolytics. This study reports a serious manipulation error in preparing alprazolam capsules formulation, where the chlordiazepoxide was placed instead of alprazolam, being both drugs belonged to therapeutic class of the benzodiazepines. A warning on the importance of manipulation process control of drugs is presented.References
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