METH AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS MANUAL
3Ĭontrary to the current notion of the text revision of the Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR), some studies have suggested that methamphetamine-induced psychosis might last for more than 1 month. As a result, methamphetamine-induced psychosis has substantially increased and an overwhelmingly increasing number of these individuals are admitted every day to psychiatric emergency settings. Moreover, many of the patients who abstain from opioids, including the patient described in the present case, turn to methamphetamine as an assumed “non-addicting” substitute. Methamphetamine use has increased several-fold in that time, and current nonofficial estimates suggest that methamphetamine is currently the second or third most widely used illicit substance in Iran, which means its use is in a real epidemic state. 2 However, in the past 2 years and with the local production of methamphetamine, its price has dropped to less than one-fifth its former price. 1 The most recent survey on drug abuse in Iran, performed a couple of years ago, showed that only a minority of the Iranian substance abusers (3.6%) used methamphetamine. To the Editor: The frequency of methamphetamine use has alarmingly increased in Iran, as in many other countries in recent years.
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