Associations between pain catastrophizing and clinical characteristics in adults with substance use disorders and co-occurring chronic pain.

CONCLUSION: In patients with comorbid substance use disorder and chronic pain, pain catastrophizing may offer a potential therapeutic target to improve substance use treatment outcomes.
PMID: 31021654 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - April 24, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Kneeland ET, Griffin ML, Taghian N, Weiss RD, McHugh RK Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research