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Koro following cannabis smoking: two case reports.

A N Chowdhury, N K Bera

Addiction August 1, 1994 DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1994.tb03361.x (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Case study Case report Peer reviewed
Sample size 1
Population A person experiencing Koro during their first cannabis use
Topics Cannabis
Key findings Koro can occur during a first experience with cannabis, a previously unreported association.

Abstract

Koro in the background of drug abuse is quite rare. The present report of Koro during the first experience with cannabis is the only account of its kind in the world Koro literature to date. The nature and extent of this genital depersonalization is discussed.

Comparable studies

Other case reports and case series on cannabis, most cited first.

Study Year Design Participants
Psychotic Reactions Following Cannabis Use in East Indians Patients at an Indian drug addiction clinic who developed acute cannabis-related psychosis 1974 Descriptive report (case series of clinical observations) n = 200
Psychiatric effects of cannabis use Swedish cases of cannabis psychosis 1985 Case series n = 70
Forty-Six Cases of Psychosis in Cannabis Abusers Gunila Bernhardson Habitual cannabis users treated for psychosis at Swedish psychiatric clinics and mental... 1972 Case series (retrospective survey of psychiatric records) n = 46
Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder after psilocybin consumption: a case study 18-year-old man with HPPD after mixed psilocybin and cannabis intoxication 2005 Case study n = 1
Cannabis‐induced Koro in Americans American men aged 22-26 with years of cannabis experience who reported negative... 2001 Case series n = 3

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