Stimulant psychosis is a psychotic disorder that appears in some people who use stimulant drugs. Most commonly, stimulant psychosis occurs in drug abusers who take very large doses but, in rare cases, it can also present in patients taking therapeutic doses under medical supervision. The most common stimulants involved are amphetamines and cocaine, though newer designer drugs such as MDPV and a-PVP produce severe psychotic episodes faster, more intense and longer lasting. Other more powerful NDRI mechanism drugs, such as 2-DPMP can produce multiple day long psychotic stimulant episodes from an acute overdose.
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