Physician assessments of drug seeking behavior: A mixed methods study.

Pain complaints are common, but clinicians are increasingly concerned about overuse of opioid pain medications. This may lead patients with actual pain to be stigmatized as "drug-seeking," or attempting to obtain medications they do not require medically. We assessed whether patient reques...

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Main Authors: Michael A Fischer, John B McKinlay, Jeffrey N Katz, Eric Gerstenberger, Felicia Trachtenberg, Lisa D Marceau, Lisa C Welch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5482434?pdf=render