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drug-induced psychosis |
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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Ministry of Health recently released figures showing that hospital admissions for drug-induced psychosis had more than doubled in the 1990s, and a spokesperson for the National Treatment Forum implicated the increasing use of methamphetamine and ecstasy as a contributor to this trend (Martin 2002). [10] Drug-induced psychosis (DIP) occurs in many patients being treated with dopaminergic drugs like 1-dopa. In what arguably might be the best collection of short stories published in the 1990s, ``Jesus' Son'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992 - released earlier this year as an Alison Maclean film adaptation), for example, Johnson crafts one of the most haunting medleys of outcast misadventures and drug-induced psychosis ever. |
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