A daily diary exploration of contexts and experiences associated with planned drinking decisions in young adults.
Conclusions: Planned drinking is likely associated with rewarding incentives and social contexts and may contribute to higher levels of subjective intoxication. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 20, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Daily level examination indicates that positive affect, but not negative affect, is associated with alcohol and marijuana use among adolescents and young adults.
Conclusions: Results have implications such that in-the-moment interventions for alcohol and SAM use may be more salient when individuals have higher positive affect than average, whereas such interventions may be more relevant for marijuana use when negative affect is lower compared to average levels. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 20, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Sex differences in the relationship between cannabis use motives and cannabis craving in daily life in emerging adults.
Conclusions: Sex/gender differences in the relationships between cannabis motives and craving reactivity indicate the value of a more targeted examination of valence (±) of craving experiences in addition to motives for use. Higher levels of precision may better inform interventions for emerging adults at risk for experiencing cannabis-related problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 20, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Interactive effect of adverse child experiences and suicidal thoughts and behaviors on adolescent alcohol and cannabis use frequency.
Conclusions: Associations between ACEs and drinking were particularly strong for adolescents with suicide attempt. Conversely, ACEs and suicide attempt were independently associated with cannabis use. Mitigating against ACEs may reduce both adolescent alcohol and cannabis use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 13, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Baseline protective behavioral strategy use predicts more moderate transdermal alcohol concentration dynamics and fewer negative consequences of drinking in young adults’ natural settings.
Conclusions: Young adults using more total PBS may experience fewer alcohol-related consequences during real-world drinking episodes in part through less risky intoxication dynamics (TAC features). Future research measuring PBS at the daily level is needed to formally test TAC features as day-level mechanisms of protection from acute alcohol-related consequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 29, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
The role of social connection in opioid use disorder treatment engagement.
Conclusions: These findings highlight the potential importance of assessing an individual’s social capital, promoting positive social connection, and continuing to assess the implementation and value of psychosocial support in MOUD treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 29, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Alcohol-involved rape: Limitations of the “rape exception” for abortion access.
Conclusions: Research evidence suggests that alcohol-involved rape incidents present critical obstacles to utilizing statutory rape exceptions to banned abortion services beyond challenges that non-alcohol-involved rape survivors are also likely to experience. Rape survivors from oppressed communities (e.g., people of color, gender minorities, and/or sexual minorities) may be disproportionately impacted. Empirical investigations specifically examining how substance use during rape impacts reproductive health care accessibility are paramount for informing health care providers, law enforcement, legal practitioners, and poli...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 15, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Alcohol consumption’s effects on working memory: Examining familial confounding.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 153-159; doi:10.1037/adb0000936Objective: The purpose of our study was to provide a more rigorous test of the causal hypothesis that chronic alcohol use impairs working memory performance. Method: We measured linear associations between a latent factor representing alcohol consumption and accuracy across four working memory tasks before and after accounting for familial confounding using a cotwin control design. Specifically, this study examined accuracy through a latent working memory score, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox List Sorting, NIH Toolbox Pi...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 15, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Why get high? Coping and enjoyment motives mediate elevated cannabis demand and cannabis-related outcomes.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that internal motives, while differentially related to aspects of demand and cannabis outcomes, are important in understanding adolescent cannabis use. Prevention efforts aimed at limiting access to cannabis and increasing access to substance-free activities may be important targets for adolescents. Further, cannabis interventions targeting specific motives for using (e.g., to cope with negative affect) may be important for reducing cannabis demand. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 15, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Imagining the future can shape the present: A systematic review of the impact of episodic future thinking on substance use outcomes.
Conclusions: Future research directions include establishing the feasibility of EFT, examining the generalizability in decreasing real-world substance use, identifying mediators and moderators of EFT outcomes, and determining the sustainability of EFT effects over time. EFT has high potential for dissemination. Limitations and potential for future research are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 12, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Increased coping motives during the COVID-19 pandemic widen cannabis disparities between sexual minoritized and nonminoritized young adults: A bimonthly assessment of data preceding and spanning the pandemic.
Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic has widened cannabis disparities between SM and non-SM YAs, due in part to pandemic-related increases in coping motives. Responsive public policy is needed that may prevent and remit SM cannabis disparities during societal crises. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 12, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Reports of self-compassion and affect regulation in psilocybin-assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder: An interpretive phenomenological analysis.
Conclusion: Our results support the assertion that psilocybin increases the malleability of self-related processing, and diminishes shame-based and self-critical thought patterns while improving affect regulation and reducing alcohol cravings. These findings suggest that psychosocial treatments that integrate self-compassion training with psychedelic therapy may serve as a useful tool for enhancing psychological outcomes in the treatment of AUD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 5, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
An exploratory factor analysis of an e-CHUG drinking motives scale with mandated students.
Conclusions: This study provides support for the construct and incremental validity of e-CHUG’s drinking motives measure and could have important implications for the consideration of drinking motives during e-CHUG interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - May 25, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Mindfulness mechanisms in alcohol use: Comparing top-down and bottom-up processes.
Conclusions: Findings suggest mindfulness may be associated with hazardous drinking reductions through craving but not effortful control and this indirect relationship works similarly across treatments engendering mindfulness explicitly and implicitly. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - May 18, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Measuring and understanding “quality of life” among emerging adults in a substance use program.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 65-78; doi:10.1037/adb0000926Objective: This work focuses on understanding quality of life and evaluating a brief quality of life measure in an outpatient emerging adult (17–25 years of age) substance use program. Method: Mixed methods were used including: (a) psychometric evaluation of the adapted MyLifeTracker (MLT) based on assessments completed four times throughout treatment (n = 100) and (b) qualitative interviews with 12 emerging adults in the program. The study was codesigned, cofacilitated, and cointerpreted with emerging adults with lived experience. Resul...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - May 18, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
