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AAPM
American Academy of Pain Medicine
Addiction
A primary, chronic, neurobiologic disease, with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. It is characterized by behaviors that include one or more of the following: impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite harm, and craving (APS, 2004).
APS
American Pain Society
ASPMN
American Society for Pain Management Nursing
Family
Any significant other(s), related or not related by blood, as defined by the patient.
Health Care Provider
Any qualified person that provides health care and that is involved in direct patient care.
IASP
International Association for the Study of Pain
IRB
Institutional Review Board
Pain
A perception driven by emotional and physiological processes, with or without identifiable pathology and relative to the environment in which it is experienced (OPI, 2005)
Physical Dependence
A state of adaptation that is manifested by a drug class specific withdrawal syndrome and can be produced by abrupt cessation, rapid dose reduction, decreasing blood level of the drug, and/or administration of an antagonist (APS, 2004).
Placebo
A medication prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder (Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary, 2002).
Pseudoaddiction
Patient behaviors that resemble those that occur with addiction and transpire when pain is undertreated.
Tolerance
A state of adaptation in which exposure to a drug induces changes that result in a diminution of one or more of the drug’s effects over time (APS, 2004).
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