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Chronic paranoid psychosis after misuse of MDMA ("ecstasy")

Philip Mcguire, Thomas Fahy

BMJ March 23, 1991 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.302.6778.697 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Case report Peer reviewed
Sample size 2
Population Individuals with chronic paranoid psychosis after heavy MDMA misuse
Topics MDMA
Keywords Psychosis
Citations 128
Key findings Heavy misuse of MDMA can lead to chronic paranoid psychosis.

Abstract

Methylenedioxymetamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") is a hallucinogenic amphetamine that combines the effects of amphetamines and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and has become increasingly popular in the United Kingdom.We report two cases of chronic paranoid psychoses after heavy misuse of this drug. Case reports CASE I

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Pathology of deaths associated with "ecstasy" and "eve" misuse. Young white men aged 20 to 25 who died after using ring-substituted amphetamines (MDMA... 1996 Case series n = 7
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A Method of Conducting Therapeutic Sessions with MDMA Clients with clear therapeutic purpose, excluding those with serious functional... 1998 Case study n = 2
Diversity of Psychopathology Associated with use of 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (‘Ecstasy’) Psychiatric patients presenting between 1990 and 1992 whose symptoms developed in the... 1994 Case series n = 13

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