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As I use the term, hyperphoria is an artificially elevated, giddy, unrealistic altered state in which the addict may be capable of acting like an antisocial personality, popularly known as a psychopath.

—Entertainment magazine The Cheers

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A condition in which one visual axis tends to be inclined upward more than the other. See hypertropia.

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As I use the term, hyperphoria is an artificially elevated, giddy, unrealistic altered state in which the addict may be capable of acting like an antisocial personality, popularly known as a psychopath. — Entertainment magazine The Cheers
The addict is either oblivious or having fun while others think they are looking at a fool. means the extreme low of mental and physical existence reached after a period of hyperphoria. — Entertainment magazine The Cheers
In the addicted life style, we see violent swings from artificial hyperphoria to hypophoria with little calm or happy time in between. — Entertainment magazine The Cheers