Prescription Opioid Misuse Treatment Leverages Mindfulness To Amplify Natural Rewards
This research suggests that: Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) reduces opioid misuse among chronic pain patients. MORE shifts patients' attention away from drug cues and toward cues for natural rewards. Dr. Eric Garland of the University of Utah and colleagues previously demonstrated that mindfulness-oriented treatment can reduce chronic pain patients' misuse of opioids. Now, a follow-up analysis of data from that study tentatively attributes the beneficial effect to an increase in patients' responsiveness to cues for natural rewards relative to cues for drug rewards. The