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Amphetamine Abuse by Hospitalized Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Don A. Rockwell
Don A. Rockwell*
Affiliation:
The Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94122
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Though Young and Scoville (11) first described the paranoid schizophreniform psychoses associated with amphetamine ingestion in 1938, amphetamine-induced psychoses were not recognized as a major problem among English speaking nations until Connell (3) published his monograph in 1958. Connell's report of 42 cases documented the frequent presence of the syndrome and subsequent reporting of over 200 such cases has borne out the seriousness of the problem (5).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 507 , February 1968 , pp. 239 - 240
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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