ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2026
Cognitive Bias Modification for Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain Did Not Predict Changes in Clinical Outcomes.
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objectiveAttentional bias, defined as the preferential focus on personally salient--compared with neutral--cues, has a hypothesized link to substance use disorders and chronic pain. Although growing research demonstrates that cognitive bias modification (CBM) can alter attentional biases, evidence is lacking to assess the extent to which such alterations predict changes in clinical symptoms or behaviors (e.g., pain severity, craving).
methodWe conducted a secondary analysis of a clinical trial examining the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a 4-week CBM adjunct for veterans (
resultsCBM for opioid and pain cues did not correspond with changes in the primary clinical outcomes of opioid craving and pain intensity (
conclusionsResults from this pilot study did not show changes in pain severity or opioid craving corresponding to CBM for opioid and pain. Findings should be considered preliminary given our small sample size; however, findings indicate a distinction between attentional biases, their modification, and clinically salient outcomes. Future research should examine CBM in larger, more diverse samples and assess the impacts of addiction severity, substance type, naturalistic settings, and more engaging methodologies (e.g., gamification of CBM tasks, using gaze-contingent paradigms).
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