Neurological Associate Pain Management Center

Vero Beach, Florida

Principles of Addiction

Doctor Hooshmand and Eric M. Phillips have co-authored the following article: The Four Principles of Addiction.

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The Four Principles of Addiction

 

THE FOUR PRINCIPLES OF ADDICTION

H. Hooshmand, M.D. and Eric M. Phillips

Neurological Associates Pain Management Center

Vero Beach, FL

Abstract. Addiction is a hindrance in the long term treatment of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) because addiction in itself aggravates CRPS, causes stress in the sympathetic nervous system resulting in more severe

Sympathetic dysfunction, and results in perpetual presence of rebound (withdrawal) pain.

Descriptors. addiction, competition, destruction, complex regional pain syndrome(CRPS), rebound phenomenon, tolerance, withdrawal pain.