INDICES> Methocarbamol (5)

["PROF. A.F.B. MABADEJE" <biolamab@linkserve.com.ng>]

Methocarbamol is not on our Essential Drugs List (EDL) in Nigeria. The
Committee members did not find any convincing evidence that it was a better
centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant than the benzodiazepines or
orphenadrine. Since the benzodiazepines have other indications orphenadrine
was retained as the only skeletal muscle antispasmodic on our EDL.

Biola Mabadeje
Professor and Head
Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine
University of Lagos
Box 191, University Post Office
Akoka
LAGOS
NIGERIA
email:biolamab@linkserve.com.ng

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