Stimulant Intoxication

Substance Intoxication

• This acute clinical condition results from recent overuse of a

substance. Anyone can become intoxicated; this is the only substance-
related diagnosis likely to apply to a person who uses a substance only
once.
 Stimulant Intoxication

• Shortly after using a stimulant drug, the patient exhibits changes of ;

• Mood/affect,
• Impaired judgment or psychosocial functioning.
• Lowered or raised blood pressure
• Dilated pupils
• Chest pain
• Nausea
 Amphetamine Intoxication

• If an amphetamine is injected,
 feeling of euphoria
 confidence

• When intoxication is severe

 confused
 their speech rambles
 Cocaine intoxication
• Include;
• Aggression
• Agitation
• Self-confidence
• Delusions
• Ideas of reference
• Irritability
• Intoxication is severe
• Rambling speech
• Headache
• Anxiety
• Palpitation of heart
 Diagnostic criteria
• A. Recent use of an amphetamine-type substance, cocaine, or other
stimulant.

• B. Clinically significant problematic behavioral or psychological

changes (e.g., euphoria or affective blunting: changes in sociability:
hypervigilance: interpersonal sensitivity:anxiety, tension, or anger;
stereotyped behaviors: impaired judgment) that developed during, or
shortly after, use of a stimulant.
 C. Two (or more) of the following signs or symptoms, developing during,
or shortly after, stimulant use:
1. Tachycardia or bradycardia.
2. Pupillary dilation.
3. Elevated or lowered blood pressure.
4. Perspiration or chills.
5. Nausea or vomiting.
6. Evidence of weight loss.
7. Psychomotor agitation or retardation.
8. Muscular weakness, respiratory depression, chest pain, or cardiac
arrhythmias.
9. Confusion, seizures, dyskinesias, dystonias, or coma.
D.The signs or symptoms are not attributable to another medical
condition and are not better explained by another mental disorder,
including intoxication with another substance.
• Specify if:
• With perceptual disturbances: This specifier may be noted when
hallucinations with intact reality testing or auditory, visual, or tactile
illusions occur in the absence of a delirium.
Diagnostic Features

• Acute or chronic Intoxication

Associated with impaired social or occupational functioning.

• Severe intoxication

can lead to convulsions, cardiac arrhythmias, hyperpyrexia, and

death.
Differential Diagnosis
• Stimulant-induced disorders. Stimulant intoxication is
distinguished from the other stimulant-induced disorders (e.g.,
stimulant-induced depressive disorder, bipolar disorder,
psychotic disorder, anxiety disorder).

• Because the severity of the intoxication symptoms exceeds that

associated with the stimulant-induced disorders

• The symptoms warrant independent clinical attention.

• Other mental disorders. Salient mental disturbances associated with
stimulant intoxication should be distinguished from the symptoms of
schizophrenia, paranoid type; bipolar and depressive disorders;
generalized anxiety disorder; and panic disorder
• Morrison, J. R. (2014). DSM-5 made easy: The clinician's guide to
diagnosis. New York