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Psychosis is a severe mental disorder involving delusions and hallucinations that disrupt perception, thoughts, emotions and behaviour. There are significant links between drug use and short or long-term psychosis, but Ian Hamilton, a lecturer at York University with a special interest in the relationship between substance use and mental health, describes drug-induced psychosis as a "woolly concept"."You can't be certain of the link between someone's drug use and a particular problem. Often drug induced psychosis is what we called a working diagnosis, or in other words, speculation," Hamilton told me.Many people smoke cannabis, but very few suffer from psychosis as a result, so there is no direct link. The same goes for mephedrone. At the very least, there are 200,000 people who used mephedrone in the last year. From a quick cuttings search, only one of them ended up stabbing his mother and cutting off his own penis, and his name was Charles.A quick search of the internet reveals that most people who cut off their dicks do so because they are cuckolded, feel sexually bereft, have mental health problems or have taken drugs. Last year, for instance, Wu Tang Clan-affiliated rapper Andre Johnson was rushed to hospital along with his penis after cutting it off and then jumping off a second floor Hollywood balcony. He blamed PCP. In another case, a man cut off his penis with a steak knife in a branch of Zizzi in London's Strand. He was later detained under the mental health act."Sometimes people do bad or bizarre things," said Hamilton. "Sometimes they do these things after taking drugs. It doesn't mean drugs have caused them to act in that way. People presume that odd behaviour can't just be that, odd behaviour; it has to be connected to something, an explanation, and drugs are often the fallback position."@narcomaniaPreviously:Going Out This Weekend? Don't Take These Pink 'Superman' Pills"Sometimes people do bad or bizarre things after taking drugs. It doesn't mean drugs have caused them to act in this way."