Drug and alcohol dependence
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Drug Alcohol Depend · Dec 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyAssessing craving and its relationship to subsequent prescription opioid use among treatment-seeking prescription opioid dependent patients.
Craving is viewed as a core feature of substance use disorders and has been shown to predict future drug use, particularly over the short term. Accordingly, craving is often assessed in treatment settings as a marker of risk for subsequent drug use. The identification of the briefest measure that maintains predictive validity is of particular value for both clinical and research settings to minimize assessment burden while maintaining utility for the prediction of use. ⋯ A brief measure of prescription opioid craving predicted prescription opioid use among individuals in treatment. This measure offers an efficient strategy to inform the assessment of risk for use in this population.