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- Doctor_shopping abstract "Doctor shopping or double doctoring refers to the practice of a patient requesting care from multiple physicians, often simultaneously, without making efforts to coordinate care or informing the physicians of the multiple caregivers. This usually stems from a patient's addiction to, or reliance on, certain prescription drugs or other medical treatment. Usually a patient will be treated by their regular physician and be prescribed a drug that is necessary for the legitimate treatment of their current medical condition. Some patients will then actively seek out other physicians to obtain more of the same medication, often by faking or exaggerating the extent of their true condition, in order to feed their addiction to that drug.Not all patients seeking inappropriate multiple prescriptions of drugs are doing so because of addiction or an intention to abuse the drugs for their recreational effects. In the United States, increasing scrutiny of prescribing practices and high-profile prosecutions of doctors for allegedly over-prescribing drugs such as opiate painkillers and benzodiazepine tranquilizers has made many doctors extremely reluctant to prescribe large doses or repeat prescriptions of these drugs, even to patients with a legitimate medical need.To accurately determine which patients are suffering from genuine pain and not necessarily abusing medications, a physician must distinguish between patient tolerance, dependence, and addiction. Tolerance happens when a patient is no longer responding to a drug in the way they initially did. Dependence develops when the neurons adapt to the repeated drug exposure or only function normally in the presence of the drug. Addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease. It is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use.The cause of increased abuse may be connected to an emphasis in modern medicine to relieve pain. This has inadvertently led to an increased supply of these medications that is more easily available. Some view prescription drugs as a "safer" way to get high compared to street drugs. Others become dependent or addicted when the medication is inappropriately prescribed or when they have been necessary in the treatment of a long-term illness or injury. Some seek prescriptions to sell because they have a high street value.".
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- Doctor_shopping hasPhotoCollection Doctor_shopping.
- Doctor_shopping subject Category:Drug_culture.
- Doctor_shopping subject Category:Health_care.
- Doctor_shopping subject Category:Substance_dependence.
- Doctor_shopping comment "Doctor shopping or double doctoring refers to the practice of a patient requesting care from multiple physicians, often simultaneously, without making efforts to coordinate care or informing the physicians of the multiple caregivers. This usually stems from a patient's addiction to, or reliance on, certain prescription drugs or other medical treatment.".
- Doctor_shopping label "Doctor shopping".
- Doctor_shopping label "Ärztehopping".
- Doctor_shopping label "ドクターショッピング".
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- Doctor_shopping sameAs ドクターショッピング.
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- Doctor_shopping sameAs Q256592.
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