ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2021
Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation as a Treatment for Addiction: From Hedonic Pleasure to Self-Transcendent Meaning.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Enhancing Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review of Mindfulness Therapies and Guided Imagery Interventions.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of Tai Chi and Baduanjin on breast cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Implicit opioid associations in OUD treatment: prediction of treatment response and moderation by mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- Positive Emotion Dysregulation in Opioid Use Disorder and Normalization by Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Brain regulation training improves emotional competences in patients with alcohol use disorder.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Trial
- Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Veterans and Military Personnel on Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Positive Emotion Regulation in Addiction: A New Frontier for Recovery Science.Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Mapping EEG Metrics to Human Affective and Cognitive Models: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Daily profiles of nondrug reward and their association with daily outcomes for people in recovery from opioid use disorder: An application of latent profile analysis applied to intensive longitudinal data.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Substance use disorder severity is associated with sensitivity to effort-related decision-making constraints.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Mindfulness in Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review of Neurocognitive Outcomes and Applications for Mental Health and Well-Being.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Within-person affect dynamics among individuals in residential treatment for opioid use disorder: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Contemporaneous Link Between Pain and Craving in Patients Recovering from Prescription Opioid Use Disorder During Residential Treatment.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Validation of an Instrument for Detecting Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Happy Hour: The association between trait hedonic capacity and motivation to drink alcohol.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Development of two novel treatments to promote smoking cessation: Savor and retrieval-extinction training pilot clinical trial findings.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Relationships between daily emotional experiences and smartphone addiction among college students: moderated mediating role of gender and mental health problems.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The mindful resiliency in recovery model: empowering the transcendence of stigma.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Role of Hedonic Goal Pursuit in Self-Control and Self-Regulation: Is Pleasure the Problem or Part of the Solution?Affective science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Chronic drug use is theorized to induce cortico-striatal neuroplasticity, driving an allostatic process marked by increased sensitivity to drug-related cues and decreased sensitivity to natural rewards that results in anhedonia and a dearth of positive affect. As such, positive emotion regulation represents a key mechanistic target for addictions treatment. This paper provides a conceptual model detailing how mindfulness may synergize a range of positive affective mechanisms to reduce addictive behavior, from savoring the hedonic pleasure derived from natural rewards, to self-generating interoceptive reward responses, and ultimately to cultivating self-transcendent meaning. These therapeutic processes may restructure reward processing from over-valuation of drug-related rewards back to valuation of natural rewards, and hypothetically, "reset" the default mode network dysfunction that undergirds addiction.
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