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The excess allocation of attention toward addiction-related stimuli has been widely reported across a wide variety of addictions, including alcohol use disorders (AUDs). This phenomenon is defined as addiction attentional bias (AB) and is thought to reflect Pavlovian conditioning processes associated with the repeated pairing of sensory stimuli with the rewarding properties of reinforcing substances. AB to alcohol related stimuli has been reported in alcohol addicted and heavy social drinking populations. The presence of addiction AB is of clinical importance as it has been reported to correlate with drug craving, addiction severity, and treatment outcomes. A more recent study found that another form of AB, generalized reward (non-drug related), AB was also heightened in addicted individuals. In a population of substance abuse users (SUDs) generalized AB reflected an increase allocation of attention to a monetary …