pseudo-addiction

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There is a term "pseudo-addiction" for when a pain patient is seeking drug to relieve pain only but behaves in same way an addict would including lying, stealing, seeing multiple providersbut only to relieve pain--not craving drug for it's psychic effect.

Drug Seeking in Primary Care 1 Dinosaur 2007
David Haddox of Emory University now an official at Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin and David E. Weissman of the University of Wisconsin, coined the term "pseudo-addiction" to describe how some patients who displayed what might be seen as addictive behavior were simply trying to treat their pain.

Archive 2005-04-01 2005
It further is stated that this drug-related behavior is actually a search for relief - "pseudo-addiction."

Salem-News.com 2009
And Dave was involved with the one case report on pseudo-addiction.

Salem-News.com 2009
We like to think that our lives will calm down, but once you are habituated to the stress, it becomes a pseudo-addiction.

Stories from The Sun Julie Block 2009
It is noted that there is little specific evidence for the concept of pseudo-addiction, which originated from one case report (Weissman and Haddox,

Salem-News.com 2009