Newsweek (11/3, Dodge) reported that “according to an article published” in the November 2018 issue of the journal Frontiers of Psychiatry, methamphetamine “can induce a psychosis similar to presentations of schizophrenia.” Recreational use of methamphetamine “has been associated [with] both auditory and visual hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech.” These triggered symptoms are “not exactly a far cry from some of the most common markers of schizophrenic episodes like distortions in perceptions, false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking and disorganized speech, according to the authors.” The study abstract disclosed that 554 current users of methamphetamine were included in the study.
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, “Blake Dodge, Newsweek, November 3, 2019