Medications and recreational substances can sometimes induce psychiatric syndromes, including depression, anxiety, mania/hypomania, sleep, and cognitive impairment. Thus, it is important to ensure that these iatrogenic effects are not mistaken for a “primary” psychiatric disorder.
The diagnosis for a Substance/Medication-Induced Major or Mild Neurocognitive Disorder is as follows:
The criteria are met for major or mild neurocognitive disorder.
The neurocognitive impairments do not occur exclusively during the course of a delirium and persist beyond the usual duration of intoxication and acute withdrawal.
The involved substance or medication and duration and extent of use are capable of producing the neurocognitive impairment.
The temporal course of the neurocognitive deficits is consistent with the timing of substance or medication use and abstinence (e.g., the deficits remain stable or improve after a period of abstinence).
The neurocognitive disorder is not attributable to another medical condition or is not better explained by another mental disorder
Specify if: