ArticleThe American journal on addictions2020
Pain Severity and Alcohol Use Among Daily Tobacco Cigarette Smokers.
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- The Influence of Winning and Losing Gambling Experience on Mood State and Alcohol Cravings.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Trial
- Pain assessment tools in patients with substance use disorders: a systematic scoping review.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Article
- Characterizing Alcohol Use and Expectancies for Alcohol Analgesia Among Breast Cancer Survivors With Arthralgia.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Bi-directional associations between alcohol consumption and pain among non-manual workers: a random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis in the British Whitehall II cohort study.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Article
- Discrimination, depressive symptoms, and prescription opioid misuse among adults with chronic pain who engage in hazardous drinking.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2026Article
- Prevalence and influencing factors of chronic pain in middle-aged and older adults in China: results of a nationally representative survey.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Pain Severity and Interference and Substance Use Among Community Pharmacy Patients Prescribed Opioids: A Secondary Analysis of the PHARMSCREEN Study.The journal of pain · 2022Article
- Cognitive-Affective Transdiagnostic Factors Associated With Vulnerability to Alcohol and Prescription Opioid Use in the Context of Pain.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2021Review
- Pain-related anxiety, sex, and co-use of alcohol and prescription opioids among adults with chronic low back pain.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Neuropeptide and cytokine regulation of pain in the context of substance use disorders.Neuropharmacology · 2020Review
- Evaluating Alcohol Use Severity in Terms of Cigarette Smoking-Related Processes and Anxiety/Depression Among Adult Latinx Smokers.Journal of dual diagnosisArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesPain is associated with hazardous alcohol use. Drinkers have reported using alcohol for pain-coping, and negative affect may be a key mechanism in pain-induced motivation to drink. However, no previous study has examined pain severity in relation to alcohol consumption, dependence, and alcohol-related consequences. Moreover, no studies have examined pain-alcohol interrelations among tobacco cigarette smokers. These secondary analyses tested the hypotheses that greater past 4-week pain severity would be positively associated with indices of hazardous drinking (ie, quantity/frequency, harmful use, and dependence), and that the current pain intensity would be positively/indirectly associated with the urge to drink via negative affect.
methodsParticipants included 225 daily smokers (43% female; M
resultsEvery one-point increase in pain severity was associated with a 47% increased likelihood of hazardous drinking, and pain severity was positively associated with quantity/frequency of alcohol consumption, harmful patterns of drinking, and alcohol dependence level (Ps < .05). Pain intensity was indirectly associated with urge to drink via negative affect (P < .05).
conclusionsThese findings provide initial evidence that smokers with greater pain severity may also report hazardous patterns of alcohol use. SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: This is the first study to demonstrate that past 4-week pain severity may be one factor that maintains three conceptually distinct patterns of hazardous drinking among smokers. The current results also provide the first evidence that greater pain intensity may be associated with an increased urge to drink alcohol, via negative affect. (Am J Addict 2020;29:134-140).
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