title: [Drug abuse experience and neuroleptic prescriptions at the onset of schizophrenia].
abstract: In the first stage of schizophrenia, patients without acute symptoms often react to the prescription of neuroleptics by reservations or a refusal. In ten young schizophrenics who were hospitalized in order to initiate therapy with neuroleptics, subjective deterioration was often coincident with objective improvement of symptoms. The use of hashish as a self-administered medication at the onset of the symptoms and the ingestion of neuroleptics were experienced by the patients in a similar fashion. The decision to prescribe neuroleptics at the onset of schizophrenia should not rest only on the presence of behavioural symptoms, some of which will have to remain untreated.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D002189:Marijuana Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012651:Self Medication; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents
vernacular_title: Expérience toxicomaniaque et prescription neuroleptique dans les schizophrénies débutantes.