Citation

Foster HM, Narasimhachari N. J. Clin. Psychiatry 1986; 47(8): 428-429.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Physicians Postgraduate Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3733677

Abstract

A previously healthy 30-year-old black woman with no history of substance abuse was hospitalized after she attempted to drown her 4-year-old son. She had become progressively confused and delusional after a flu-like illness 2 weeks before. Serum and lumbar CSF samples assayed for phencyclidine (PCP) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry with d5 PCP as an internal standard were positive. The patient recovered rapidly after treatment with haloperidol and acidification of her urine. Suspicion of PCP abuse should remain high among patients with psychosis, even for those with no history of substance abuse.

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