Pseudoaddiction

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Pseudoaddiction

A drug-seeking behaviour that simulates true addiction, which occurs in patients with pain who are receiving inadequate pain medication

pseudoaddiction

Substance abuse A drug-seeking behavior that stimulates true addiction in Pts with pain who are receiving inadequate
pain, medication. Cf Addiction, Drug-seeking.

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No references found			Often, this is a manifestation of pseudoaddiction an attempt to acquire enough medication to reduce intractable pain, from doctors who undermedicate them, usually because of fear of causing addiction or fear of arrest by overzealous law enforcement agents. Conviction without a crime: a true story by Jackson, Michael D. / Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Boston -- Adolescents with under-treated chronic pain may develop pseudoaddiction to their pain medications, which would involve the demonstration of drug-seeking behaviors that are easy to confuse with true addiction. Undertreated pain can spark pseudoaddiction by Sullivan, Michele G.; Knight / Clinical Psychiatry News Pseudoaddiction is a delicate issue, especially when you consider the potential for survey and legal problems. Pseudoaddiction is a drug reality: the nursing home medication ... by Acello, Barbara / Contemporary Long Term Care			pseudo-Bartter syndrome pseudo-Cushing syndrome pseudo-Cushing's syndrome pseudo-eosinophil pseudo-focused grid pseudo-fowl pest pseudo-Graefe's sign pseudo-Hirschsprung's disease pseudo-Horner's syndrome pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy pseudo-Kaposi sarcoma pseudo-lumpy-skin disease pseudo-odontoma pseudo-oligodontia pseudo-Pelger-Hüet anomaly pseudo-Turner syndrome pseudo-Turner's syndrome pseudo-von Willebrand's disease pseudo-Whipple's disease pseudoacanthosis pseudoacanthosis nigricans pseudoaccommodation pseudoachondroplasia pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia pseudoactinomycosis Pseudoaddiction pseudoagraphia pseudoainhum pseudoalbinism pseudoalbino pseudoaldosteronism pseudoallele pseudoalleles pseudoallelism pseudoallergy pseudoanemia pseudoaneurysm pseudoangina pseudoankylosis pseudoanodontia pseudoanorexia pseudoaphakia pseudoapoplexy pseudoappendicitis pseudoarthrosis pseudoataxia pseudoatrophy of brain pseudoautosomal region Pseudobilharziella pseudoblackleg pseudobulbar			Pseudo-Terminal Utilities pseudo-tty pseudo-Turner syndrome pseudo-Turner's syndrome Pseudo-vector Pseudo-vector Pseudo-Vegetarian pseudo-von Graefe sign pseudo-von Willebrand's disease Pseudo-Weak-Phase Object Approximation pseudo-Whipple's disease pseudo-wild type Pseudo-wire Pseudo-Wire Emulation Pseudo-Wire Emulation Edge to Edge Pseudo-Wire Protocol Data Unit Pseudo-Zellweger Syndrome pseudo... pseudo–Kaposi sarcoma pseudo–Kaposi sarcoma pseudo–Kaposi sarcoma pseudoacanthosis pseudoacanthosis nigricans pseudoaccommodation Pseudoachondroplasia Pseudoachondroplasia pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia pseudoactinomycosis Pseudoaddiction pseudoadiabat pseudoadiabatic chart pseudoadiabatic expansion pseudoagraphia pseudoainhum pseudoalbinism pseudoalbino pseudoaldosteronism pseudoallele pseudoalleles pseudoalleles pseudoallelism pseudoallergy pseudoallochem pseudoanalog display pseudoanemia pseudoaneurysm pseudoaneurysm pseudoaneurysm pseudoaneurysm pseudoangina pseudoankylosis pseudoanodontia pseudoanorexia pseudoaphakia pseudoapoplexy pseudoappendicitis pseudoarthrosis pseudoarthrosis

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