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Substance-induced psychosis (commonly known as toxic psychosis or drug-induced psychosis) is a form of psychosis that is attributed to substance intoxication, withdrawal or recent consumption of psychoactive drugs. It is a psychosis that results from the effects of various substances, such as medicinal and nonmedicinal substances, legal and ...
The PSQ (Psychosis Screening Questionnaire) is the most common tool in detecting psychotic symptoms and it includes five root questions that assess the presence of PLE (mania, thought insertion, paranoia, strange experiences and perceptual disturbances) [125] The different tools used to assess symptom severity include the Revised Behavior and ...
Legal cannabis (marijuana) product. Overconsumption and reliance could lead to cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome. The term amotivational syndrome was first devised to understand and explain the diminished drive and desire to work or compete among the population of youth who are frequent consumers of cannabis and has since been researched through various methodological studies with this ...
Cannabis is a known risk factor for developing psychosis that can progress to schizophrenia but this is the first time researchers have found brain-level changes in an at-risk population in real time.
Amphetamines are a drug used to commonly treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. Past studies link amphetamine use to possibly developing the psychiatric disorder ...
Taking a high dose of ADHD drugs is linked to more than five times greater risk of developing psychosis or mania, according to a new study published Thursday in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Drugs in the class of amphetamines, or substituted amphetamines, are known to induce "amphetamine psychosis" typically when chronically abused or used in high doses. [8] In an Australian study of 309 active methamphetamine users, 18% had experienced a clinical level psychosis in the past year. [9]
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