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Psychopathology of a Drug Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Griffith Edwards
Griffith Edwards*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Addiction Research Unit, London SE5
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A young man aged 23 made contact and asked to talk about an adverse drug reaction. He had been puzzled and frightened by what had happened to him and although he was a very experienced drug-user he had not fully realized that a drug could cause such consequences—he had feared that he was going mad. He came along not as ‘a patient’ but because he believed that he had something to tell which might add to medical insights.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 5 , November 1983 , pp. 509 - 512
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Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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