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ArticleJournal of social work practice in the addictions2026

Assessing usability and acceptability of a VR digital therapeutic for treatment of substance use disorders.

Micki Washburn, Paul Ziemba, Joshua Awua, LaTisha Thomas, Jacob Ziemba, Patrick Bordnick

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Article in Journal of social work practice in the addictions, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Micki WashburnSchool of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1486-2501
Paul ZiembaInnate VR LLC, Lake Orion, MIchigan, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-5595-2431
Joshua AwuaSchool of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2488-1079
LaTisha ThomasSchool of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4905-235X
Jacob ZiembaInnate VR LLC, Lake Orion, MIchigan, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-6823-314X
Patrick BordnickSchool of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8225-7904

Funding

Modular Adaptive Virtual Reality Intervention for Clinical Substance use disorder (MAVRICS)R41DA053878 · NIDA · INNATEVR, LLC · PI WASHBURN, MICHELLE (MICKI) E · 2021 to 2022
$312k
NIDA NIH HHS R41 DA053878
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The co-occurrence of opioid use disorder (OUD) and other substance use creates treatment challenges, yet evidence-based nonpharmacological interventions remain limited. This study examined the preliminary acceptability and usability of HelixVR

Indexed as

Addictioncue exposureopioidssubstance use treatmentvirtual reality

Identifiers

PMID42609962
PMCPMC13479837

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