Citation

Manschreck TC, Laughery JA, Weisstein CC, Allen DN, Humblestone B, Neville M, Podlewski H, Mitra N. Yale J. Biol. Med. 1988; 61(2): 115-122.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3407210

PMCID

PMC2590279

Abstract

Psychosis was present in 29 percent of cocaine-disordered patients hospitalized in 1985 during an epidemic of freebase cocaine abuse in the Bahamas. Record reviews revealed that a variety of psychotic phenomenologic patterns were present. Prior major mental disorders and increased dosage of cocaine were more common among psychotic than non-psychotic patients. Violent behavior was common among cocaine patients, especially those with psychosis. We conclude that freebase cocaine psychosis is neither rare nor benign.

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