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Narcotic Seeking BehaviorAka: Opioid Seeking Behavior, Aberrant Drug-Related Behavior, Pseudo-addiction

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  1. See Also
    1. Opiod
    2. Narcotic Addiction
    3. Somatization
    4. Chronic Pain
  2. Signs of Drug Seeking or Narcotic Addiction
    1. See Substance Abuse Evaluation
    2. Selling prescription drugs
    3. Prescription forgery
    4. Steeling or borrowing drugs from others
    5. Injecting oral Narcotics
    6. Obtaining Narcotics from multiple physicians
    7. Concurrent use of psychoactive substances
      1. Illicit Drugs
      2. Alcohol
    8. Multiple dose increases
      1. Increase despite warnings
      2. Increase despite adverse effects
    9. Resistance to change therapy despite low efficacy
    10. Diminished work and home functioning
    11. Multiple episodes of prescription loss
  3. Signs of Pseudo-addiction (seeking adequate pain relief)
    1. See Chronic Pain
    2. Aggressive pursuit of more Narcotic
    3. Narcotic hoarding when symptoms are reduced
    4. Requesting specific Narcotics
    5. Dose escalation without physician consent once or twice
    6. Unapproved Narcotic use to treat other symptoms
  4. References
    1. Portenoy (1996) J Pain Symptom Manage 11:203

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