ArticlePsychological bulletin2026
A social cascades model of addiction: Examining effects of psychological interventions on social and substance use outcomes via meta-analytic review.
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Addiction has long been observed to manifest in social landscapes characterized by high levels of dysfunction, including interpersonal conflict, low social support, and a high density of substance-using peers. Two lines of work have emerged to understand these correlations-one examining how social environments might foster addiction and the other centered primarily around the detrimental effects of substance use on social life. Here, we test a novel cascades model positing bidirectional relationships between individuals' social environments and substance use, integrating theory from basic behavioral research with methods from intervention science. We explore both social and substance use outcomes derived from randomized intervention trials for participants with substance problems (
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