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The goal of treatment is to improve the patient's ability to carry out activities of daily living. It does not cure Parkinson's disease or delay its progression.
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Levodopa/Carbidopa
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Reduce tremor, rigidity, but not bradykinesia. They are less effective than levodopa or dopamine agonist, but better tolerated.
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Benztropine
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Oral is used to treat partial seizures and tonic-clonic seizures. IV is used to treat convulsive SE.
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Phenytoin
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It is used to treat partial seizures (simple and complex) and tonic-clonic seizures; it can also be used to treat bipolar disorder, trigeminal, and glossophyargneal neuralgias.
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Carbamazepine
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Relief of signs and symptoms of spasticity
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Baclofen
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Relief of signs and symptoms of spasticity and also for the treatment of malignant hyperthermia.
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Dantrolene
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Relief of prevention of moderate to severe pain while causing minimal side effects.
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Morphine
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Relief of moderate to severe pain.
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Pentazocine
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Reversal of opioid overdose, reversal of postoperative opioid effects, reversal of neonatal respiratory depression
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Naloxone (Narcan)
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