Role of substitute alcohol and ecological problems in pathomorphosis of delirium tremens (Tula regional model)

This article presents the results of clinical-psychopathological and statistical examination of 126 patients with delirium tremens. Substitute alcohol and anthropogenic environmental pollution are the reasons for pathomorphosis of delirium tremens (delirium alcoholicum). It manifests itself by serious clinical picture, modification of clinical experiences, the onset of new mental illness, not previously described (anthropomorphous visual hallucinations, faucibus (oropharyngeal) hallucinations, delusion of detriment, kindliness and dysphoria). The obtained results can be used for diagnosis of delirium tremens, prediction of treatment. It will allow making the correction in the treatment of delirium tremens, especially in postpsychotic period with manifestation of organic psychosyndrome.