Drug Seeking Behavior: Identifying and Managing Patients
Author: Wendy Perdomo, MS-4Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) The most common reason patients visit the emergency department (ED) is due to pain of which represents 75% of complaints in the ED, and the third most common health careproblem.[1] Of these visits to the ED, about 20% of these patients are categorized as “drug-seeking,” which is defined as […]
