Amfetamines Alcohol

SED-9, 8). The psychotic syndrome was indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia, with short periods of disorientation, and could occur after a single dose (many had taken the equivalent of some 500 mg of amfetamine or metamfetamine orally) with or without simultaneous alcohol, and was most pronounced in addicts (SED-9, 9). Amfetamine psychosis was also seen in 14 people in Australia (1) the predominant hallucinations were visual, which is unusual for schizophrenia (SED-8,11). Similarly, in contrast to schizophrenia, vision was the primary sensory mode in thinking disorders and body schema distortions in 25 amfetamine addicts (63). 

Not understood. Although alcohol is a CNS depressant and the amfetamines are CNS stimulants, there is no simple antagonism between the... 

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