Cocaine, Coffee, Constipation: (1) Leveraging Concrete Relatedness in Paraphrenia to Address Stimulant Use and (2) Monitoring Constipation with AIMS to Titrate Tetrabenazine

Our patient is a 75-year-old man, non-combat Army veteran ('66-'69), divorced, domiciled in his own apartment, retired from the post office, with a medical history of asthma and osteoarthritis, a psychiatric history of primary psychosis beginning in his late fifties (without affective symptoms, substance use, or cognitive decline with a MoCA 26/30), cocaine use disorder in partial remission, and depression in remission, one prior admission, without suicidality or violence, who follows with geriatric psychiatry for psychosis, tardive dyskinesia, and cocaine use.

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - February 18, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Emily Phelps Source Type: research