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Behavioral preference for viewing drug v. pleasant images predicts current and future opioid misuse among chronic pain patients

The study used a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal design to test whether a behavioral choice task, previously validated in stimulant users, was associated with increased opioid misuse severity at baseline, and whether it predicted change in opioid misuse severity at follow-up.

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Impaired frontostriatal functional connectivity among chronic opioid using pain patients is associated with dysregulated affect

Preclinical studies have shown effects of chronic exposure to addictive drugs on glutamatergic‐mediated neuroplasticity in frontostriatal circuitry. These initial findings have been paralleled by human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research demonstrating weaker frontostriatal resting‐state functional connectivity (rsFC) among individuals with psychostimulant use disorders. We hypothesized that prescription opioid users with chronic pain, as compared with healthy control subjects, would evidence weaker frontostriatal rsFC coupled with less frontostriatal gray matter volume (GMV).

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CONSORT-SPI 2018 Explanation and elaboration: Guidance for reporting social and psychological intervention trials.

The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) Statement was developed to help biomedical researchers report randomized controlled trials (RCTs) transparently. The authors have developed an extension to the CONSORT 2010 Statement for social and psychological interventions (CONSORT-SPI 2018) to help behavioral and social scientists report these studies transparently.

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Relapse among recovering addiction professionals: Prevalence and predictors.

A cross-sectional survey was used to obtain a conservative estimate of relapse among a sample (n = 265) of recovering addiction professionals in the United States and to identify potential predictors for relapse. The relapse rate for the sample was 14.7%. Two predictors for relapse identified

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