Link Between Perception of Treatment Need and Craving Reports in Addiction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Perception of treatment need (PTN), a component of clinical insight, is associated to negative addiction treatment outcomes when low. Our hypothesis was that lower PTN was associated with less craving when reported retrospectively, the most common measure of craving in clinical settings.

Objective

To explore the association between PTN and craving among a dataset of subjects with severe substance use disorders.

Methods

Participants were recruited from outpatient addiction clinic admissions or harm reduction program services. Good and low PTN were based on consistency between severe addiction (at least six DSM-5 criteria) and self-report need for addiction treatment from the Addiction Severity Index. Craving was retrospectively characterized over the past 30

SUBMITTER: Lambert L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8841420 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature