Attenuation of response to drug-related cues in male heroin abstainers is modulated by cognitive control mechanisms.

Conclusions/Importance: Among abstinent heroin users, attentional bias to drug-related cues was moderated by attentional control. Further, high cognitive control demand was found to reduce heroin users' ability to resist attentional capture from salient, but irrelevant, drug-related information, which may contribute to compulsive drug-seeking behavior and relapse in heroin users.
PMID: 31290365 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Substance Use and Misuse - July 12, 2019 Category: Addiction Tags: Subst Use Misuse Source Type: research