흡입제 남용에서 시작된 정신병 1례

• 영문명: A Case of Persistent Psychotic Disorder with the Previous History of Inhalant Abuse
• 발행기관: 한국중독정신의학회
• 저자명: 이헌정(Heon-Jeong Lee) 조방현(Bang-Hyun Cho):정인과(In-Kwa Jung)
• 간행물 정보: 『중독정신의학』Vol.5, No.1, 59~62쪽, 전체 4쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 정신과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2001.04.30

영문 초록

A 18 year-old male patient visited hospital due to psychotic symptoms. He had been sniffing volatile inhalants since 3 years ago, but he had quit sniffing 10 months ago. However he has reexperienced visual and auditory hallucinations without sniffing inhalant since 8 months ago. He had no family history of schizophrenia. The psychiatric examination revealed that he had positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as visual hallucination, auditory hallucinations, delusion of being controlled, delusional perception, and somatic hallucination/delusion, but did not show negative symptoms. It was difficult to diagnose this case as schizophrenia or inhalant-induced psychotic disorder. This case may suggest that the positive symptoms are important manifestations of psychotic disorder due to volatile inhalant abuse. We also suggest that the psychotic symptoms of chronic inhalant abuse are serious and potentially irreversible.

키워드

Inhalant Psychosis