Completion of addiction treatment is one of the most consistent factors associated with a
favorable treatment outcome. Unfortunately, it is more common for a patient to drop-out of …

The past decade has witnessed a surge in research on training paradigms aimed at directly
influencing cognitive processes in addiction and other psychopathology. Broadly, two …

Drug use and relapse involve learned associations between drug-associated environmental
cues and drug effects. Extinction procedures in the clinic can suppress conditioned …

In recent years, there has been significant progress and expansion in the development of
evidence-based psychosocial treatments for substance abuse and dependence. A literature …

Abstract Cue Exposure Therapy (CET) is a behavioristic psychological approach to treating
substance use disorders (SUD). Prior systematic reviews have found CET to be ineffective …

This paper is the 28th consecutive installment of the annual review of research concerning
the endogenous opioid system, now spanning over a quarter-century of research. It …

Behavioral addictions such as gambling, video games, sex, and shopping share many
clinical features with substance use addictions including etiology, course, and neurobiology …

Aims Previous studies have shown that abstinent heroin addicts exhibit an attentional bias to
heroin‐related stimuli. It has been suggested that attentional bias may represent a …

Finding effective long-lasting treatments for drug addiction has been an elusive goal.
Consequently, researchers are beginning to investigate novel treatment strategies including …

Background Cue exposure therapy (CET) techniques involves repeated and controlled
exposures to alcohol stimuli which rest upon the well-established principles of Pavlovian …