Definitions
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- noun medicine A condition resembling
drug addiction but caused byunderprescription of drugs to treatpain in the patient, causing them to seek more.
Etymologies
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pseudo- + addiction
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Examples
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On Wednesday, her questions centered around pseudoaddiction, a medical phenomena that arises in patients who do not receive enough pain medication, and the concept of tolerance and how it relates to why doctors would escalate pill counts or drug strength.
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On Wednesday, her questions centered around pseudoaddiction, a medical phenomena that arises in patients who do not receive enough pain medication, and the concept of tolerance and how it relates to why doctors would escalate pill counts or drug strength.
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