"Bath salts" - Induced psychosis and serotonin toxicity

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1125-

  Joksovic, Pavle ^a   Mellos, Nick ^a   Van Wattum, Pieter Joost ^a,b   Chiles, Catherine ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHINONE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PULSE RATE; RESTLESSNESS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEDATION; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SHIVERING; TREMOR; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 84865773634     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.12cr07819     Document Type: Article

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