PSYCHOSES DUE TO AMPHETAMINE
- 1 September 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 120 (3) , 268-272
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-195412030-00013
Abstract
Eight cases of psychiatric reaction to benzedrine are reported. The typical reaction is essentially that of a paranoid psychosis with auditory and visual hallucinations in a setting of agitation and excitement. Recovery takes place in one to 32 days. In some instances (2 patients) a chronic response of a schizophrenic type will develop. Benzedrine may be cause of toxic psychotic reactions.Keywords
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