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Drug rehab centre 'already there'
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NDLEA Advocates Drug Treatment, Rehabilitation Centre for C'river
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50-bed ultra modern drug rehab centre in Badal
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Former drug addicts ask presidential candidates for support
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NDLEA Canvasses for Creation of Drug Addicts' Rehabilitation & Treatment …
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Cardiff binge drink NHS centre wins award
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How to Get Tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Festival
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Noted Psychiatrist and Addiction Specialist Joins Promises Austin
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Drinking – and Dying – in South Africa
Heroin use was highest in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, while alcohol abuse dominated in-patient centres in KwaZulu-Natal, the Northern Cape and the North West. "Substance abuse impacts negatively on the physical, social, spiritual and mental wellbeing of … Read more on AllAfrica.com

Question by Do your own thinking!: What is and is not “drug-seeking behaviour”?
Saw a movie recently that had a bit of dialogue between a shrink and her legitimately stressed-out patient that went roughly — _very_ roughly —

Doctor: What can I do to help you?
Patient: At this point, I need some Valium or something like that.
Doctor: I won’t prescribe it. That’s drug-seeking behaviour.

Absurd as it is, even the most rational sort of ‘I think I am at the point where I am in need of medication’ seems to be labelled “drug-seeking behaviour” by a lot of doctors. Are there formal definitions for it?

Best answer:

Answer by ? BTriX??
That is a touchy subject in patient – doctor relations.

While some doctors will perscribe anything their patient’s ask them for – others will not perscribe anything at all. It is all dependant on the doctor, if he is willing to make a commitment to monitor a patient taking valium, pain killers and such – or if they are not willing to.

What do you think? Answer below!

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Addiction is a complex disease
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford photographed at rehab facility; clinic confirms he's in …
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