MCQ Psychiatry Answer 24

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Drug-seeking behavior in patients who abuse prescription drugs includes insistence on brand-name drugs, claiming a high tolerance to pain medications, overreporting symptoms, and insistence on a prescription for a controlled drug at the first visit.


Ref: Longo LP, Parran T Jr, Johnson B, et al: Addiction: Part II. Identification and management of the drug-seeking patient. Am Fam Physician 2000; 61(8):2401-2408.


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