TWO CASES OF WITHDRAWAL FROM ETHCHLORVYNOL
JOHN B. AYCRIGG M.D.1
1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado Psychopathic Hospital.
Two cases of withdrawal from chronic addiction to ethchlorvynol are reported. The withdrawal syndrome is characterized by a latent period of 6 to 10 days and by a delirium which, in addition to the classical characteristics of delirium, has many features suggestive of a schizophrenic reaction. Clearing of the schizophreniform symptoms occurs first followed by clearing of the confusion.
