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| | Amphetamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Patients with acute toxicity from amphetamines may have symptoms of psychosis, disorientation, temporary symptoms associated with schizophrenia, aggression, delusions, lock-jaw, diarrhea, palpitations, arrhythmia, syncope, hyperpyrexia, and hyperreflexia progressing to convulsions and coma. | | | Tolerance is developed rapidly in amphetamine use, therefore increasing amount of the drug that is needed to satisfy the addiction. | | | Due to the widespread use of amphetamines as a treatment for ADD/ADHD in the USA, Canada, and other countries, they frequently find their way onto the street and are one of the most frequently-abused drugs in high schools and colleges. |
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| | Chronic Amphetamine Use and Abuse |
| | By far, the best documented psychopathological response to chronic amphetamine stimulants is a paranoid schizophrenia-like psychosis in a setting of clear consciousness, in which formal aspects of thought were relatively intact but delusions and hallucinations evoked intense emotions, including intense fear (7, 16, 32, 60, 234). | | | Hallucinations are frequently described in chronic amphetamine abusers; the incidence is upwards of 81% (32) and 83% (108). | | | In fact, conditioning of ongoing behavior at the time of the initial reinforcing effects of amphetamine can literally provide the basis for accidental conditioning of this behavior, as well as later remnants of this behavior found in chronically treated animals (57). |
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| | Amphetamine (PIM 934) |
| | Habitual use or chronic abuse usually results in toxic psychosis classically characterised by paranoia, delusions and hallucinations, which are usually visual, tactile or olfactory in nature, in contrast to the typical auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia. | | | There are no suitable methods of enhancing elimination of amphetamine and no specific antidotes. | | | Amphetamine interacts with several other drugs (see 7.6). |
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| | Amphetamine psychosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Amphetamine psychosis can include delusions, hallucinations and thought disorder. | | | Amphetamine psychosis is a form of psychosis which can result from amphetamine or methamphetamine use. | | | The link between amphetamine and psychosis is one of the major sources of evidence for the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis. |
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| | Cannabis Use and Psychosis |
| | Longitudinal studies of illicit drag use indicate that persons who had used cannabis a large number of times by late adolescence were at increased risk of subsequently using other illicit drugs, such as, amphetamine [66, 69]. | | | They criticise the poor quality of information on cannabis use and its relationship to the onset of psychosis, and the person's premorbid adjustment and their family history of psychosis. | | | Cannabis use in a large sample of acute psychiatric admissions. |
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| | Erowid Online Texts : PiHKAL #8 ARIADNE |
| | Many of the psychopharmacological anti-this or anti-that agents address ailments such as anxiety, psychosis, paranoia, or depression, which are only known in man. So how does one discover a new drug in areas such as these? | | | ARIADNE was the first of these, the methyl for a hydrogen atom on the methyl group of the amphetamine chain. | | | If one has in hand a drug that is known to be effective in one of these human ailments, an animal assay can be set up to give some measurable response to that specific drug, or a biochemical property can be rationalized as being related to a mechanism of action. |
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| | Amphetamine psychosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The link between amphetamine and psychosis is one of the major sources of evidence for the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis. | | | Amphetamine psychosis is a form of psychosis which can result from amphetamine or methamphetamine use. | | | Amphetamine psychosis can include delusions, hallucinations and thought disorder. |
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| | The Virtual Hospital: Clinical Psychopharmacology Seminar 1996-1997: Stimulant Psychosis |
| | Cocaine psychosis or intoxication is qualitatively indistinguishable from amphetamine intoxication. | | | Snyder describes case histories of patients with amphetamine psychosis in which a misdiagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was maintained for up to three years, during which time patients received ECT and insulin coma therapy, all the while covertly ingesting amphetamines while in the hospital (1973). | | | Amphetamine psychosis is a toxic reaction closely resembling schizophrenia which may occur after chronic, short-term, or single large-dose amphetamine use. |
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| | Amphetamine, amphetamine overdose, speed amphetamine |
| | Amphetamine psychosis Amphetamine psychosis is a form of psychosis which can result from amphetamine or methamphetamine use. | | | Amphetamine or Sympathomimetic Intoxication (Intoxication- Amphetamines or Sympathomimetics, Intoxication- Uppers, Sympathomimetic Intoxication)... | | | Amphetamine is more effective than methamphetamine at raising dopamine levels in... |
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| | The dopamine theory of schizophrenia |
| | Although it is now clear that amphetamine psychosis and paranoid schizophrenia are not identical, the similarities between the states motivated research designed to explore the biochemical and behavioural effects of amphetamine in animals in order to understand the role of dopamine in behaviour and to develop medicines to treat schizophrenia. | | | Therefore amphetamine psychosis may be a model of paranoid schizophrenia. | | | DA and amphetamine are structurally similar and amphetamine displaces DA from synaptic vesicles. |
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| | What is amphetamine psychosis? |
| | Amphetamine psychosis is a psychotic mental health disorder that is caused by the use of amphetamines and is therefore traditionally classified as a so-called organic psychosis. | | | Amphetamines may cause psychotic symptoms in various ways, but usually the term amphetamine psychosis is refers to a delusional state, brought on by the use of amphetamines that do not involve clear hallucinations or changes in ones state of consciousness. | | | Amphetamine psychosis may be difficult to distinguish from psychosis typical of schizophrenia, but under professional supervision patients recover quicker and with greater ease as long as they stop using amphetamines. |
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| | Treatment for amphetamine psychosis |
| | However, naturalistic studies of amphetamine psychotic symptoms and course are also crucial for the development of study designs appropriate for further treatment studies of amphetamine psychosis. | | | Participants were people with amphetamine psychosis, diagnosed by any set of criteria. | | | The results of two studies in amphetamine users show that agitation and some psychotic symptoms may be abated within an hour after antipsychotic injection. |
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| | Find Drug Rehabs best amphetamine psychosis |
| | Amphetamine psychosis is the result of binging on amphetamine (usually methamphetamine) for days straight... | | | such as chlorpromazine, haloperidol, and thioridazine, are effective for the treatment of amphetamine psychosis... | | | an experienced psychiatrist to differentiate between amphetamine psychosis and paranoid schizophrenia... |
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| | drugsych.txt |
| | As a result of the author's study of some 60 cases of amphetamine psychosis, the basic symptomatology of the disease was determined to be a paranoid hallucinatory state. | | | TI: Dopamine autoreceptor subsensitivity: a mechanism common to the treatment of depression and the induction of amphetamine psychosis. | | | TI: Amphetamine and cocaine induce drug-specific activation of the c-fos gene in striosome-matrix compartments and limbic subdivisions of the striatum. |
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Schizophrenia |
| | High doses of amphetamines cause schizophrenic-like symptoms in a disorder called "amphetamine psychosis." Amphetamine psychosis is a model for schizophrenia because drugs that block amphetamine psychosis also reduce schizophrenic symptoms. | | | The "dopamine theory of schizophrenia" states that schizophrenia is caused by an overactive dopamine system in the brain. | | | Schizophrenia affects men and women in equal numbers, although on average, men appear to develop schizophrenia earlier than women. |
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Schizophrenia |
| | High doses of amphetamines cause schizophrenic-like symptoms in a disorder called "amphetamine psychosis." Amphetamine psychosis is a model for schizophrenia because drugs that block amphetamine psychosis also reduce schizophrenic symptoms. | | | Schizophrenia affects men and women in equal numbers, although on average, men appear to develop schizophrenia earlier than women. | | | The "dopamine theory of schizophrenia" states that schizophrenia is caused by an overactive dopamine system in the brain. |
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| | Amphetamine psychosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The link between amphetamine and psychosis is one of the major sources of evidence for the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis. | | | One particular manifestation of psychosis associated with amphetamine use is delusional parasitosis or Ekbom's syndrome, where a person falsely believes themselves to be infested with parasites. | | | This is thought to be largely due to the increase in dopamine activity in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain caused by amphetamine-like drugs, although other factors such as chronic sleep deprivation may also play a part. |
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| | Re: Amphetamine Psychosis: utopizen |
| | In reply to Re: Amphetamine Psychosis: utopizen, posted by geno on October 3, 2004, at 5:35:36 | | | Re: Amphetamine Psychosis: utopizen part 3 thug life 9/30/04 | | | Re: Amphetamine Psychosis: utopizen last time thug life 9/30/04 |
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| | Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is often referred to as 'amphetamine psychosis' or 'cocaine psychosis', but may produce experiences virtually indistinguishable from psychosis associated with schizophrenia. | | | The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia or the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis is a theory that argues that the unusual behaviour and experiences associated with schizophrenia (sometimes extended to psychosis in general) can be fully or largely explained by changes in dopamine function in the brain. | | | Some researchers have suggested that overactivity of dopamine systems in the mesolimbic pathway may contribute to the 'positive symptoms' of schizophrenia (such as delusions and hallucinations), whereas problems with dopamine function in the mesocortical pathway may be responsible for the 'negative symptoms', such as avolition, flat emotional response and alogia. |
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| | Methamphetamine Update 1999, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics |
| | With amphetamine psychosis you detoxify them and use a short-term course of psychotropic medication like Haldal and get them into recovery. | | | Amphetamine is a major source of violence and occurs primarily in the Caucasian population for a number of complicated reasons. | | | At UC Davis, 40% of the ER admissions are acute amphetamine toxicity. |
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| | RaveSafe Information on Drug Induced Psychosis |
| | Amphetamine Psychosis is a serious condition which is related specifically to use of any amphetamine. | | | A complete treatment of this important topic of drug induced psychosis is beyond the scope here: many books have been written, people spend their lives studying and trying to understand just one aspect of it. | | | Psychosis by the way is defined as "severe mental derangement... |
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| | Chronic Amphetamine Use and Abuse |
| | Amphetamine psychosis has been induced in experimental studies of amphetamine abusers by doses smaller than those that were originally involved in its gradual development (16, 186). | | | In chronic high-dose cocaine (75) or amphetamine abuse (49), energy and euphoria induced by active drug administration is replaced in withdrawal by rebound dysphoric and anergic symptoms that appear to occur whether or not the stimulant abuser meets the diagnostic criteria for a mood disorder (74). | | | Sustained high-dose administration of amphetamines (especially methamphetamine) to experimental animals produces a persistent depletion of DA which is associated with terminal degeneration (62, 182, 195), as well as neuronal chromatolysis in the brain stem, cortex and striatum (42, 182). |
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| | Erowid Experience Vaults: Methamphetamine & Amphetamine - Amphetamine-Induced Psychosis |
| | Erowid Experience Vaults: Methamphetamine& Amphetamine - Amphetamine-Induced Psychosis | | | I abstained from amphetamines for the 2 weeks following, and the 2nd week was very unpleasant due to strong amphetamine cravings. | | | I was at a 3-day rave and had been taking mainly Adderral and Dexedrine to stay awake (Adderral = 75% dextroamphetamine, 25% amphetamine and Dexedrine = 100% dextroamphetamine), which probably contributed to this. |
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| | PM - Rise in amphetamine addiction |
| | CHERYL WILSON: At the extreme end is quite severe mental health problems, basically what's commonly caused a speed psychosis, which is basically a paranoid psychosis which can result in hallucinations, completely uncontrolled paranoid behaviour and can result in quite aggressive and violent behaviour as well, so that's the extreme end. | | | Cheryl Wilson, who is the Chief Executive of the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, says more work needs to be done to find ways to better treat amphetamine addiction. | | | JULIA LIMB: Cheryl Wilson says the situation is made more difficult because amphetamine users are unlikely to seek treatment. |
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| | Drug Abuse Help: Methamphetamine Information |
| | Users of large amount of methamphetamines over a long period of time can develop an amphetamine psychosis, which is a mental disorder similar to paranoid schizophrenia. | | | The symptoms of this psychosis are hallucinations, delusions, and extreme paranoia. | | | It is a central nervous system stimulant from the amphetamine family. |
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| | Dopamine |
| | Likewise, both amphetamine and cocaine can cause psychosis in normal individuals by increasing dopamine at the synapse. | | | The positive symptoms of psychosis are a result of excess dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway. | | | Increase apathy, withdrawal and cognitive blunting (negative symptoms of psychosis) |
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| | Dopamine |
| | Likewise, both amphetamine and cocaine can cause psychosis in normal individuals by increasing dopamine at the synapse. | | | The positive symptoms of psychosis are a result of excess dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway. | | | Increase apathy, withdrawal and cognitive blunting (negative symptoms of psychosis) |
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