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A Rating Scale for Evaluation of the Clinical Course and Symptomatology in Amphetamine Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. E. Jönsson  and
K. Sjöström
L. E. Jönsson
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Center, University of Uppsala, Ulleråker Hospital, 750 17 Uppsala, Sweden
K. Sjöström
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Center, University of Uppsala, Ulleråker Hospital, 750 17 Uppsala, Sweden
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Oral intake of amphetamine may cause the development of a schizophrenia-like paranoid psychosis (Monroe and Drell 1947, Connell 1958, Kiloh and Brandon 1962). Intravenous abuse of the drug causes more intense psychotic manifestations dominated by vivid visual and auditory hallucinations (Connell 1958, Kramer et al. 1967, Rylander 1967, Cohen 1968). In the present investigation a rating scale, was designed for the study of amphetamine psychosis in 15 intravenous abusers. A preliminary report of this work has been given earlier (Jönsson and Gunne 1969).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 541 , December 1970 , pp. 661 - 665
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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