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Assessing craving and its relationship to subsequent prescription opioid use among treatment-seeking prescription opioid dependent patients
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Background Craving is viewed as a core feature of substance use disorders and has been shown to predict future drug use, particularly over the short term. Accordingly, craving is often assessed in treatment settings as a marker of risk for subsequent drug use. The identification of the briefest measure that maintains predictive validity is of particular value for both clinical and research settings to minimize assessment burden while maintaining utility for the prediction of use.Methods Data from a multi-site clinical trial of treatment for prescription opioid dependence were examined to evaluate whether a brief, 3-item craving scale administered each week predicted urine-confirmed self report of prescription opioid use in the subsequent week. Logistic regression models examining the association between craving and presence or absence of opioid use in the following week were conducted, controlling for opioid use in the previous week, treatment condition, and lifetime history of heroin use.Results Greater craving was associated with a higher odds of prescription opioid use in the following week. For each one-unit increase on this 10-point scale, the odds of using opioids in the subsequent week was 17% higher. In addition to an item assessing urges, items assessing cue-induced craving and perceived likelihood of relapse in an environment where drugs were previously used contributed uniquely to this association.Conclusions A brief measure of prescription opioid craving predicted prescription opioid use among individuals in treatment. This measure offers an efficient strategy to inform the assessment of risk for use in this population.
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“Self-reported craving can be evaluated by tools that are specific to craving or as a single item within a broader assessment tool (summarized in Table 1 ) (63, 72).”
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“The craving scale was initially developed to assess cravings related to cocaine use with high internal consistency and validity [36] and has displayed adequate internal consistency and validity when adapted for other substances [39,40].”
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“Although multi-item scales may offer improved reliability and sensitivity compared with single-item scales (12, 62), they can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and lead to respondent disengagement, demotivation, and increased reactivity (62, 63).”
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“Alternatively, multi-item scales can be used to assess craving (62), for example, the Opioid Craving Scale includes three questions each rated on a 0–10 VAS.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McHugh, R. K., Fitzmaurice, G. M., Carroll, K. M., Griffin, M. L., Hill, K. P., Wasan, A. D., & Weiss, R. D.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Yale University (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 145
- Pages
- 121-126
- ISSN
- 0376-8716 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4254575
- OpenAlex
- W1967066293
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 3.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R00DA029115, K24DA022288, K99/R00 DA029115, U10DA015831, K23DA035297)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Keywords
- craving, prescription opioid dependence, recurrence prediction, cue-induced craving, opioid use, addiction treatment
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analgesics, Opioid, Heroin, Female, Humans, Male, Narcotic Antagonists, Opioid-Related Disorders, Drug Prescriptions, Substance Abuse Treatment Centers, Young Adult, Self Report, Craving
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