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U.S. healthcare and psychiatry in particular, lack trained professional workforce, physical infrastructure, and financial support via insurance coverage needed to adequately support addiction treatment. Concepts of ‘pseudoaddiction’ and ‘self-medication’, influential among physicians who treat pain and/or mental illness, frame drug use as being therapeutically beneficial, which is different from, and even opposite to, how drug use is understood in the disease model of addiction. Over-emphasis on the closely-related concepts of ‘Pseudoaddiction’ and ‘self-medication’, especially in regard to patients who suffer addiction at high rates, may have contributed to a medical-psychiatric culture that has been slow to taking clinical responsibility for diagnosing, preventing, and treating addiction as a disease of major public health importance. *Corresponding author: R. Andrew Chambers, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Addiction Psychiatry Training Program, Director, Laboratory for Translational Neuroscience of Dual Diagnosis & Development, IU Neuroscience Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Suite 314, 320 West 15th Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, Tel: 317 278 1716; E-mail: robchamb@iupui.edu Received Date: July 9, 2016 Accepted Date: August 9, 2016 Published Date: August 16, 2016

Physician Understanding and Treatment of Addiction: Have ‘Pseudoaddiction’ and ‘Self-Medication’ led us astray?