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Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement Reduces Opioid Attentional Bias Among Prescription Opioid-Treated Chronic Pain Patients

Garland, Eric L., Baker, Anne K., Howard, Matthew O.·2017·Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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Objective: Opioid-misusing chronic pain patients who are treated with opioid analgesics selectively attend to opioid-related cues. This opioid attentional bias (AB) is a maladaptive cognitive process that can lead to automatic, habitual misuse of opioids. The aim of this secondary data analysis was to explore the effects of a novel social work intervention, Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), on posttreatment opioid AB among a subgroup of chronic pain patients who exhibit attentional reactivity to opioid cues prior to treatment. MORE is a group-therapy program that integrates training in mindfulness, reappraisal, and savoring techniques. Method: Data were obtained from a sample of chronic pain patients (N = 115) who participated in a randomized controlled trial and were randomized to an 8-week MORE intervention or an 8-week support group. A dot-probe task assessed opioid AB for opioid-related cues, and the Current Opioid Misuse Measure assessed changes in opioid-misusing behaviors from pretreatment to 3-month follow-up. Results: Pretreatment opioid AB moderated the effect of treatment on changes in opioid AB. Among participants with a positive 200 millisecond (ms) opioid AB at pretreatment (n = 71), MORE was associated with significantly greater reductions in 200 ms opioid AB than the support group from pretreatment to posttreatment, but no changes in 2,000 ms opioid AB were observed. Decreases in 200 ms opioid AB over the course of treatment predicted reduced opioid misuse by 3-month follow-up. Conclusions: This exploratory study provides preliminary evidence that a mindfulness-oriented intervention may significantly reduce opioid AB.

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  • In an RCT, MORE significantly reduced attentional bias toward opioid cues and decreased subjective craving responses during an opioid cue-reactivity protocol.

    “decreased cue-reactivity was observed in an RCT in which MORE was shown to significantly reduce attentional bias toward opioid cues [52] and decrease subjective craving responses during an opioid cue-reactivity protocol [30].”
  • In individual studies, MBIs produced significant decreases in attentional bias, addictive automaticity, dysphoric affect, and pain severity and related functional interference in patients with chronic pain.

    “as well as decreases in attentional bias [52, 66, 67], addictive automaticity [66], dysphoric affect [40, 66], and pain severity and related functional interference in patients with chronic pain [41].”

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Authors
Garland, E. L., Baker, A. K., & Howard, M. O.
Affiliations
  • University of Utah (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Venue
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Published
2017-12-01
Volume
8
Issue
4
Pages
493-509
ISSN
  • 1948-822X (ISSN-L)
  • 2334-2315
OpenAlex
W2759097864
Cited by
47
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2
FWCI
3.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Keywords
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement, chronic pain, prescription opioid misuse, mindfulness-based interventions, cognitive reappraisal, savoring, group therapy, social work intervention, dot-probe task, cue reactivity, treatment moderators

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