What Is Amphetamine Psychosis?

Repeated use of moderate or high doses of amphetamine results in mental disorders predominated by delusions, which can occur during or after medication, often accompanied by hearing or tactile hallucinations, emotional instability, increased activity, hostility, and even irrational and sudden violence .

Repeated use of moderate or high doses of amphetamine results in mental disorders predominated by delusions, which can occur during or after medication, often accompanied by hearing or tactile hallucinations, emotional instability, increased activity, hostility, and even irrational and sudden violence .

Chinese name

Amphetamine psychosis

Foreign name

amphetamine psychosis

Department

Psychiatry

Introduction to amphetamine psychosis

Amphetamine psychosisamfetamine psychosis, most of which are unconscious, but can cause acute delirium if used in large doses.

Amphetamine diagnostic criteria

1. Recently used amphetamines.

2. Clinically significant maladaptive behaviors or psychological changes immediately after use of amphetamines or immediately after use.

(Such as euphoria or sluggishness, altered social skills, excessive alertness, sensitive interpersonal relationships, anxiety, tension, or anger, stereotyped behavior, impaired judgment, impaired social or professional function)

3. There are two or more of the following situations when amphetamines are being used or immediately after use:

Tachycardia or slowness, dilated pupils, increased or decreased blood pressure, sweating or chills, nausea or vomiting, weight loss, psychomotor agitation or retardation, weak muscles, slowed breathing, chest pain, arrhythmia, consciousness Cloudiness or coma, convulsions, movement or abnormal muscle tone.

4 It is not caused by physical conditions, and cannot be explained by other mental disorders.

Amphetamine Psychiatric Treatment

Psychotherapy. Because the onset of reactive psychosis is caused by obvious and intense trauma, psychotherapy is particularly important. First of all, we should use interpretive psychotherapy to analyze and point out to the patient how to treat the mental stimuli of the disease correctly; then explain the nature of the disease so that the patient can master the law of the disease; Initiative, to overcome the disease, provide comfort and assurance to the patient, and promote the development of the disease in a favorable direction.

Environmental treatment. Because the patient has an obvious traumatic experience of the situation at the time of the onset, in order to promote an early improvement, the environment should be adjusted as much as possible to eliminate the adverse stimulus of the onset. Practice has proven that transferring patients to an inspiring environment has positive implications for treatment.

Medical and physical therapy. First of all, we must ensure the patient's sleep. For patients with anxiety, upset and insomnia, weak stabilizers can be used to adjust the functional state of the brain and prolong the physiological sleep time. Aldehyde, etc. For patients with acute onset of excitement, paranoia or depression, antipsychotic drugs or antidepressants can be used, such as chlorpromazine, haloperidol, perphenazine, Telden and imipramine, and amitriptyline Lin, do not worry about equality, the dosage should not be too large. Patients who have attempted suicide should pay close attention and perform several electrical shock treatments. Patients who are unable to eat actively, stiff and depressed, or whose hallucinations, delusions, and depression are marked and persistent, and who are physically weak should be given supportive therapy, such as nasal feeding or intravenous infusion to maintain the necessary nutrition of the patient. Consider using insulin hypoglycemia for treatment.