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Hallucinogen Intoxication


Dysfunctional changes in physiological functioning, psychological functioning,  mood state, cognitive process, or all of these, as a consequence of consumption of a [hallucinogen]; usually disruptive, and often stemming from central nervous system impairment.*

Diagnostic criteria for 292.89 Hallucinogen Intoxication
(cautionary statement)
 

A. Recent use of a hallucinogen

B. Clinically significant maladaptive behavioral or psychological changes (e.g., marked anxiety or depression, ideas of reference, fear of losing one's mind, paranoid ideation, impaired judgment, or impaired social or occupational functioning) that developed during, or shortly after, hallucinogen use. 

C. Perceptual changes occurring in a state of full wakefulness and alertness (e.g., subjective intensification of perceptions, depersonalization, derealization, illusions, hallucinations, synesthesias) that developed during, or shortly after, hallucinogen use. 

D. Two (or more) of the following signs, developing during, or shortly after, hallucinogen use: 

(1) pupillary dilation 
(2) tachycardia 
(3) sweating 
(4) palpitations 
(5) blurring of vision 
(6) tremors 
(7) incoordination 

E. The symptoms are not due to a general medical condition and are not better accounted for by another mental disorder.

Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision.  Copyright 2000 American Psychiatric Association

Associated with these drugs: alcohol (drunk, tipsy), amphetamine-like (amped, speeding), caffeine (wired), cannabis (stoned), cocaine (coked up), hallucinogens (tripping), inhalants, opioids, phencyclidine, sedatives, hypnotics

Also: high, intoxicated, tight

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*Excerpt with permission from Graham, Allan W. & Schultz, Terry K. (Editors) Principles of Addiction Medicine, 2nd Edition Hardcover 1998 (American Society of Addiction Medicine)



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