ArticleAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2019
Reward, Relief and Habit Drinking: Initial Validation of a Brief Assessment Tool.
Article in Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed.
- Characterizing reward and relief/habit drinking profiles in a study of naltrexone, varenicline, and placebo.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Trial
- Reward, relief, and habit drinking profiles in treatment seeking individuals with an AUD.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Trial
- A practice quit model to test early efficacy of medications for alcohol use disorder in a randomized clinical trial.Psychopharmacology · 2024Trial
- Subjective response to alcohol: Interactive effects of early life stress, parental risk for mood and substance use disorders, and drinking context.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Trial
- Trial
- Alcohol and Stress Together Can Lead to Long-Term, Dementia-Like Deleterious Effects in the Brain.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Next-generation biomarkers for alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment: A critical review.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Review
- Comparing the psychometric properties of reward and relief drinking measures.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Cognitive inflexibility moderates the relationship between relief-driven drinking motives and alcohol use.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Heart rate variability: A primer for alcohol researchers.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Characterizing alcohol cue reactive and non-reactive individuals with alcohol use disorder.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- The future of reward and relief drinking profiles: Considerations for social motives, stability of profiles, and tailored interventions.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Examining the validity of the addictions neuroclinical assessment domains in a crowdsourced sample of adults with current alcohol use.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Examining the validity of the drinking motives questionnaire for identifying reward and relief drinking subgroups in college students.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Advancing the preclinical study of comorbid neuroHIV and substance use disorders: Current perspectives and future directions.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2023Review
- Using lickometry to infer differential contributions of salience network regions during compulsion-like alcohol drinking.Addiction neuroscience · 2023Article
- Translational models of addiction phenotypes to advance addiction pharmacotherapy.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Review
- Animal models of compulsion alcohol drinking: Why we love quinine-resistant intake and what we learned from it.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- A critical review of front-loading: A maladaptive drinking pattern driven by alcohol's rewarding effects.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Review
- Cannabis use and subjective response to alcohol in the human laboratory.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
aimsAlcohol use disorder is highly heterogeneous. One approach to understanding this heterogeneity is the identification of drinker subtypes. A candidate classification consists of reward and relief subtypes. The current study examines a novel self-report measure of reward, relief, and habit drinking for its clinical correlates and subjective response (SR) to alcohol administration.
methodsNon-treatment-seeking heavy drinkers (n = 140) completed the brief reward, relief, habit drinking scale (RRHDS). A subset of this sample (n = 67) completed an intravenous alcohol administration. Individuals were classified into drinker subtypes. A crowdsourced sample of heavy drinkers (n = 187) completed the RRHDS and a validated reward relief drinking scale to compare drinking classification results.
resultsThe majority of the sample was classified as reward drinkers (n = 100), with fewer classified as relief (n = 19) and habit (n = 21) drinkers. Relief and habit drinkers reported greater tonic alcohol craving compared to reward drinkers. Reward drinkers endorsed drinking for enhancement, while relief drinkers endorsed drinking for coping. Regarding the alcohol administration, the groups differed in negative mood, such that relief/habit drinkers reported a decrease in negative mood during alcohol administration, compared to reward drinkers. The follow-up crowdsourcing study found a 62% agreement in reward drinker classification between measures and replicated the tonic craving findings.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that reward drinkers are dissociable from relief/habit drinkers using the brief measure. However, relief and habit drinkers were not successfully differentiated, which suggests that these constructs may overlap phenotypically. Notably, measures of dysphoric mood were better at detecting group differences than measures capturing alcohol's rewarding effects.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.