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Lilliputian Hallucination Complicating Dexamphetamine‐Amylobarbitone Addiction
Author(s) -
TODD JOHN
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1968.tb05277.x
Subject(s) - addiction , amphetamine , psychology , psychiatry , dopamine , neuroscience
Summary Two cases of drug abuse have been described, the persons concerned being adolescent youths. In the first case, separate episodes of formication and Lilliputian hallucination occurred; in the second case, an episode of Lilliputian hallucination occurred. Although both these youths took other drugs, amphetamine‐drugs appeared to be the dominant drugs and therefore the probable cause of the hallucinatory phenomena described. Attention has been drawn to the marked similarity which obtains between the effect of cocaine—on the one hand, and amphetamine‐drugs—on the other. The writer has suggested that in future, addicts may substitute intravenous methylamphetamine for intravenous cocaine.