TY - JOUR
T1 - A 16-year-old boy with combined volatile and alcohol dependence
T2 - A case report
AU - Sachdeva, Soumya
AU - Gandhi, Raghu
AU - Verma, Pankaj
AU - Kaur, Arshdeep
AU - Kapoor, Rohit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - Substance abuse has been defined as the use of chemical substances for non medical purposes in order to achieve alterations in psychological functioning. The substances commonly abused in India include nicotine, alcohol, cannabis and opioids. However, the use of solvents and propellants is also on the rise as these are inexpensive, legally available household, industrial, office and automobile products; which are more commonly available to children and adolescents. We hereby describe a 16-year-old boy with combined volatile and alcohol abuse; who presented with increasing ataxia, visual and hearing disturbances.
AB - Substance abuse has been defined as the use of chemical substances for non medical purposes in order to achieve alterations in psychological functioning. The substances commonly abused in India include nicotine, alcohol, cannabis and opioids. However, the use of solvents and propellants is also on the rise as these are inexpensive, legally available household, industrial, office and automobile products; which are more commonly available to children and adolescents. We hereby describe a 16-year-old boy with combined volatile and alcohol abuse; who presented with increasing ataxia, visual and hearing disturbances.
KW - Alcohol abuse
KW - Diffuse cerebral and cerebellar atrophy
KW - Polychloroprene solvent
KW - Sensorineural hearing loss
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U2 - 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13730.6271
DO - 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13730.6271
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938563679
VL - 9
SP - VD01-VD03
JO - Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
JF - Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
SN - 0973-709X
IS - 8
ER -
