[Clinical features of alcoholism in patients with the heboid form of schizophrenia]

By means of a clinical and follow-up method the author studied 74 patients with adolescent slowly progressive psychopath-like schizophrenia and prevalence of alcohol abuse in the clinical picture. It was established that in the period of the active development of the process in the framework of a protracted schizophrenic attack there are no signs of chronic alcoholism. Massive alcohol abuse is a symptom of the main psychopath-like state limited in time by the period of an attack and disappears with the outcome of the attack. In a relatively sluggish development of schizophrenia it would be justified to speak of co-existence of 2 diseases where schizophrenia is the main and it sharply modifies the picture of chronic alcoholism. These patients demonstrate a shorter period in the formation of chronic alcoholism and a distinct prevalence of its somatic signs over the mental.