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drug-induced psychosis

drug-induced psychosis

Neurology A drug-induced psychiatric illness in which reality is impaired, typically linked to hallucinations or delusions, leading to communication or social problems
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A man who tried to set light to a flat with a six-year-old girl inside was suffering from drug-induced psychosis.
He's suffered from drug-induced psychosis in the past."
Croly later told officers he felt he may have suffered a drug-induced psychosis, but other than that there was "little explanation" as to why he launched the assault, the judge said.
Harris had been taking "small amounts" of amphetamines leading up to the incident, but experts agreed she had not been suffering from drug-induced psychosis.
Mr Jones said Harris had been taking "small amounts" of amphetamines leading up to the incident, but experts agreed she had not been suffering from drug-induced psychosis.
The What A Girl Wants star suffered a public meltdown in 2013 as a result of drug-induced psychosis.
His defence barrister has said he was in a drug-induced psychosis at the time.
Stuart Doig knows more than most about the potential long-term dangers posed by under-age drinking, after his first taste of alcohol during his teenage years led to him being diagnosed with alcoholand drug-induced psychosis as an adult.
But within three weeks of returning to Brisbane, she was in hospital in a drug-induced psychosis which she didn't come out of for three weeks.
Many nurses questioned whether an acute inpatient unit was the right place to treat those with drug-induced psychosis, who were very unwell and could be violent and verbally abusive, Miller said.
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