Explicit and implicit heroin-related cognitions and heroin use among patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment

Craving is an important issue in substance use disorder. To achieve a better understanding of the cognitive processing systems of craving, the cognitive processes of craving have been considered as two distinct processes. One system, based on rule-based inferences and named explicit cognition, is more conscious and effortful. The other system, based on prior learned association and named implicit cognition, is unconscious and effortless. How explicit and implicit cognitions are associated with heroin use in patients with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is not clear.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - August 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Peng-Wei Wang, Huang-Chi Lin, Hung-Chi Wu, Chih-Yao Hsu, Kuan-Sheng Chung, Chih-Hung Ko, Cheng-Fang Yen Source Type: research