Comorbidity of mental disorders in synthetic cannabinoids abuse: clinical dynamics, behavior, adaptation

TL;DR

This study explores how abuse of synthetic cannabinoids affects mental disorders, behaviors, and adaptation in patients with schizophrenia and personality disorders.

Contribution

The paper identifies how synthetic cannabinoid abuse deforms mental disorders and influences clinical behaviors and adaptation patterns.

Findings

Synthetic cannabinoid abuse contributes to exacerbations of schizophrenia and delusional disorders.

Drug abuse leads to behavioral distortions, including delinquency, isolation, and auto-aggression, especially in personality disorders.

Remission in schizophrenia is marked by quasi-adaptation in addictive environments and frequent rehospitalizations.

Abstract

The study of the phenomenon of deformation of mental disorders, clinical dynamics, behaviors, and adaptations in case of abuse of synthetic cannabinoids is of relevance.

To study the phenomenon of deformation of mental disorders, clinical dynamics, behaviors, and adaptations in case of abuse of synthetic cannabinoids

Catamnestic, clinical-psychopathological methods (PANS, SANS, CGI, MMPI, CGI, STAI, LSI, TPA, ICD-10), statistical (Python 3.11.0).

291 men (age from 18 to 35 years) were examined: 240 - F12.2xx, of which 98 - F60.xx-F62.xx, 142 - F20.xx and 51 - F20.xx without substance abuse. The study took place from 2018 to 2023 based on psychiatric institutions of the Russia, Tomsk region, St. Petersburg, Noyabrsk and Nizhnevartovsk.

The phenomenon of abuse of synthetic cannabinoids is a factor in the deformation of mental disorders. Persistent exogenous visual and delusional disorders contribute to the symptoms of exacerbations of schizophrenia; schizophrenic symptoms are included in psychotic episodes in personality disorders. In remission of schizophrenia, there is a quasi-adaptation from socio-professional environments, mostly addictive and criminalized, a pronounced smoothing of emotional impoverishment, a stigmatizing symptom is mainly a volitional defect, as well as frequent rehospitalizations not indirectly related to drugs. In remissions of drug use in patients with personality disorder, persistent schizophrenia of behavior. In patients with schizophrenia and patients with personality disorders, there is a distortion of behavior with a predominance in patterns of inclinations to delict, nonconformity, isolation in an addictive environment, suspiciousness. Drug abuse may initiate auto-aggression predominantly in individuals with personality disorders and to a lesser extent in patients with schizophrenia. True suicides in drug users include only episodes with depressive symptoms.

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