A Case of Recurrent Psychosis Associated with Amphetamine Addiction
- 1 October 1950
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 96 (405) , 1033-1036
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.96.405.1033
Abstract
Although psychotic attacks following overdoses of amphetamine are well known, the following case is reported because it appears unusual in that repeated attacks of mental illness, over a period of several years, have occurred following the ingestion of this drug.Keywords
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