Delayed Psychosis Induced by Bupropion in a Former Cocaine Abuser
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Cocaine addicts prone to cocaine-induced psychosis have lower body mass index than cocaine addicts resistant to cocaine-induced psychosis--Implications for the cocaine model of psychosis proneness.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1555-211X
DOI: 10.4088/pcc.09l00943gry