A randomized pilot trial of brief family-involved treatment for alcohol use disorder: Treatment engagement and outcomes.
Conclusions: Implementation of brief family-involved treatment in inpatient AUD treatment was challenging, but preliminary data suggest the potential value of B-FIT in impacting drinking outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - March 16, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Genetic and shared environmental factors explain the association between adolescent polysubstance use and high school noncompletion.
Conclusions: The association between polysubstance use and early school dropout was largely accounted for by genetic and shared environmental factors, with nonsignificant evidence for a potentially causal association. Future research should examine whether underlying shared risk factors reflect a general propensity for addiction, a broader externalizing liability, or a combination of the two. More evidence using finer measurement of substance use is needed to rule out a causal association between adolescent polysubstance use and high school noncompletion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - March 13, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Effects of cognitive behavioral techniques for gambling on recovery defined by gambling, psychological functioning, and quality of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Conclusions: Future studies should examine the longitudinal associations between gambling harms, psychological symptoms, and quality of life and to assess whether changes in gambling harms throughout treatment precede or are a consequence of changes in psychological symptoms and quality of life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - February 23, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Neighborhood disadvantage has an indirect effect on problem drinking through increased psychological distress.
Conclusions: Increased psychological distress may be a key mechanism that links living in disadvantaged neighborhoods and problem drinking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - February 23, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Subjective effects of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis versus alcohol-only use: A qualitative analysis.
Conclusions: Subjective effects from simultaneous use largely map onto domains of single-substance alcohol and cannabis effects (e.g., relaxation, sociability, cognitive/behavioral impairment), but also include distinct domains related to simultaneous use (e.g., balancing/replacement effects, altered sensation and perception). Future quantitative research is needed to validate measures of subjective effects from simultaneous use and their relations with use behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - February 9, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Reaching out to big losers: Exploring intervention effects using individualized follow-up.
Conclusions: A brief duty of care telephone contact with high expenditure customers showed sustained effects over 12 months, in particular for individuals showing the highest level of TL. Examining trajectories using advanced statistical models identified customer characteristics most strongly associated with reduced TL. These findings can guide prevention strategies with evidence-based knowledge about differential effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - February 9, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Adolescents’ perceptions of alcohol portrayals in the media and their impact on cognitions and behaviors.
Conclusions: Adolescents have awareness of media portrayals of alcohol, both positive and negative, and their associated impacts. Findings highlight the need for much more work to understand the conditions under which, and for whom, exposure to different types of positive portrayals of alcohol in the media translate into positive expectancies about alcohol or drinking motives. Such work may ultimately inform intervention targets to reduce early initiation and/or risky drinking among adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - February 9, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Facets of mindfulness among video game players: A latent profile analysis.
Conclusion: These findings provide a more nuanced assessment of the protective role of mindfulness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - January 12, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Explanatory pathways linking anxiety sensitivity and alcohol (mis)use: A prospective state–trait analysis among emerging adults.
Conclusions: Results suggest that AS is a risk factor for coping-motivated drinking, and that there is interplay between cognitions that may help understand emerging adult alcohol risk pathways. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 19, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
A hypothetical lottery task to assess relative resource allocation toward alcohol and cannabis.
Conclusions: Results provide initial support for the hypothetical lottery task as an indicator of relative resource allocation toward substances. Generally, these results extend previous behavioral economic research demonstrating the utility of relative resource allocation as a unique predictor of clinically relevant outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 15, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
World Health Organization (WHO) risk level reductions in inpatients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid anxiety disorders.
Conclusions: Though abstinence was associated with the best outcomes in this abstinence-based treatment sample, we conclude that reduced drinking is also associated with significant improvements in alcohol-related outcomes in inpatients with AUD and comorbid anxiety disorders.At 1-, 4-, and 12-months posttreatment, most patients reported abstinence (83, 63, and 60%), and 11, 25, and 26% reported drinking at a reduced level. Drinking reductions achieved at 1-month posttreatment were maintained at 12-month posttreatment by 74% of participants. Overall, the abstinent group reported the best psychological and functional outcom...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 8, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Injunctive and descriptive normative feedback for college drinking prevention: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?
Conclusions: Each intervention has merit for use in college student harm reduction efforts. Single-component or combined PNF could be considered a potential starting point, as PNF is less burdensome than a multicomponent PFI when considering ease and length of delivery. Results can inform optimization of norms-based interventions and guide recommendations on efficacious components for reducing alcohol use and harms on college campuses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 8, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
The effects of social context and opportunity cost on the behavioral economic value of cannabis.
Conclusions: Results are consistent with previous research illustrating social and opportunity costs as determinants of cannabis use behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 8, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Acute exercise-induced changes in motivation and behavioral expectation for quitting smoking as predictors of smoking behavior in women.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol 37(3), May 2023, 475-482; doi:10.1037/adb0000901Objective: Temporally static self-reports of motivation and behavioral expectation are established predictors of addictive behavior. However, previous research has not tested intervention effects on within-day changes in motivation/behavioral expectation for smoking cessation as mediators of smoking abstinence. The goals of this study were to test whether aerobic exercise exerts acute pre–postexercise effects on motivation and behavioral expectation and to test the main and interactive effects of change in motivation/behavioral expecta...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 1, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Alcohol demand assessed daily as a predictor of same day drinking.
Conclusions: Findings replicate previous work suggesting that brief demand (intensity) can predict same day drinking. Elevation in intensity in particular may denote greater risk for elevated alcohol consumption at subsequent episodes, thus intervention among at-risk drinkers may be possible prior to drinking initiation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - December 1, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
