PHYSICIAN UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF ADDICTION: HAVE ‘PSEUDOADDICTION’ AND ‘SELF-MEDICATION’ LED US ASTRAY?
Journal: Journal of Addiction and Dependence (Vol.2, No. 3)Publication Date: 2016-07-15
Authors : Chambers; R Andrew;
Page : 1-4
Keywords : Pseudoaddiction; Self-Medication; Addiction;
Abstract
U.S. healthcare and psychiatry in particular, lack trained professional workforce, physical infrastructure, and financial support via insurance coverage needed to adequately support addiction treatment. Concepts of ‘pseudoaddiction' and ‘self-medication', influential among physicians who treat pain and/or mental illness, frame drug use as being therapeutically beneficial, which is different from, and even opposite to, how drug use is understood in the disease model of addiction. Over-emphasis on the closely-related concepts of ‘Pseudoaddiction' and ‘self-medication', especially in regard to patients who suffer addiction at high rates, may have contributed to a medical- psychiatric culture that has been slow to taking clinical responsibility for diagnosing, preventing, and treating addiction as a disease of major public health importance.
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