P01-42 - Treasure paranoia and met - Amphetamine abuse

Abstract

Using metAmphetamine is going to be speared among young people in recent decade in our region.Cases of metAmphetamine induced psychosis are frequently admitted in our psychiatric hospital in Kerman city (Located in south - east of Iran). Hallucinations and paranoid delusions are well - known symptoms of met - psychosis.In this report we presented a 35 years old man with history of regular usage of drug in the past one year. He had persecutory delusions.His paranoid symptoms were interesting from a point of view. He bought a second - hand car, one year prior to his illness’ and at the same time, he started using met - amphetamines, gradually he found small pieces of gold and diamonds in the car. He could find them anywhere in the car, so he had searched the car completely several times during nights. He collected a small box filled with severed small stones, glasses and other garbage and called them treasure, and claimed former owners of the car were following him and want to recapture the car, take the treasure and harm him. Paranoid symptoms are common in met - abuse but this type could be considered as a variant In this type patient had painful sensation of paranoid delusion, and in the same time he enjoied the feeling of being reach.