ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2020
Craving is impermanent and it matters: Investigating craving and cannabis use among young adults with problematic use interested in reducing use.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05382273 (Cannabis Tolerance Break Resource Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Longitudinal craving profiles in cannabis use disorder: A latent class growth analysis of the achieving cannabis cessation: Evaluating N-Acetylcysteine Treatment (ACCENT) (CTN-0053) trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Trial
- Cannabis craving and cross-substance substitution during cannabis treatment: Initial insights across seven cannabis use disorder clinical trials.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
- Tri-use of alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine in daily life among young adults: A day-level comparison of substance use outcomes to dual-use and alcohol-only use occasions.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Craving mediates the association between affect and substance use in daily life among individuals with substance use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Intentions matter: How planned and unplanned alcohol and cannabis use influences outcomes.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- Examining the Reliability and Utility of MouseView.js as a Method to Measure Attentional Bias for Cannabis Use.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2026Article
- The Neurocircuitry of Cannabis Cue Reactivity in Cannabis Use Disorder: A Functional Neuroimaging Study.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Personalizing ecological momentary intervention for substance use disorders through data-driven decision rules.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Ecological momentary assessment and mediation analyses reveal relationships between affect, craving, and substance use in daily life.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Momentary mindfulness versus distraction coping messages to reduce cannabis craving among young adults: A microrandomized trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Development and Initial Validation of a Momentary Cannabis Craving Scale Within a Homogeneous Sample of U.S. Emerging Adults.Assessment · 2025Article
- Predictors of substance use during treatment for addiction: A network analysis of ecological momentary assessment data.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Craving changes in first 14 days of addiction treatment: an outcome predictor of 5 years substance use status?Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Adjunctive Topiramate in Adolescents With Co-Occurring Bipolar and Cannabis Use Disorders.JAACAP open · 2024Article
- Expectancies of the Effects of Cannabis Use in Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD).Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use.Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research · 2024Article
- The effectiveness of mobile-based ecological momentary motivational enhancement therapy in reducing craving and severity of cannabis use disorder: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2023Article
- Momentary Craving, Craving Variability, and Cannabis Use: Associations With THC Concentrates and Sex.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- The Craving-Manager smartphone app designed to diagnose substance use/addictive disorders, and manage craving and individual predictors of relapse: a study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Rates of problematic cannabis use have nearly doubled over the last decade, and peak onset for cannabis use disorders occurs during young adulthood. Craving for cannabis is hypothesized to be an important factor that maintains cannabis use among people who desire to stop or reduce their use, including many young adults. Previous studies that used single timepoint assessment methods to demonstrate a link between craving and cannabis use have found mixed predictive utility of measurements. The impermanent, or time-varying nature of craving may be responsible for mixed findings, leading to inaccuracies in retrospective recall and greater difficulty measuring craving and detecting its association with cannabis use. The current study compared intensive longitudinal assessments and single timepoint assessments predicting cannabis use among young adults with problematic cannabis use who reported a desire to reduce their use. Participants (N = 80) completed a baseline craving questionnaire and intensive longitudinal assessments of momentary craving and cannabis use up to four times per day for 14 days. Results suggested that averaged momentary craving predicted cannabis use above-and-beyond craving measured at baseline. An increase of one SD above the sample-mean for averaged momentary craving increased the probability of cannabis use by 367 %, while a one SD increase in baseline craving was only associated with a 49 % increase. Findings suggest that asking young adults who want to cut back on their cannabis use about their craving at a single timepoint may not be as clinically useful as tracking cravings repeatedly in near real-time and in ecologically valid contexts.
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