Encyclopedia
March 24, 2022
Vanessa Wang, Bryant M. Stone
Buddhism was established by Guatama Buddha as a practice to liberate sentient beings from suffering. Mindfulness-Based interventions (MBIs) are Western psychologists’ adaptation of mindfulness/Vipassana to treat mental illnesses. In addition to mindfulness, Buddhist recovery peer-support programs also adopt the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Five Precepts, which are the...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
March 11, 2022
Mark Kang, Lindsay Mackay, Devon Christie et al.
1 citation
Abstract Despite growing availability of several evidence-based approaches in the treatment of substance use disorders, existing pharmacotherapy and psychosocial interventions continue to have significant limitations, such as low treatment retention rates and high rates of relapse. There is a need to develop new strategies and models to address these limitations and target underlying...
Psychopharmacology
March 1, 2022
Madeline M. Pantoni, Jinah L. Kim, Kaitlin R. Van Alstyne et al.
Abstract Rationale ±3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a recreational drug that shows substantial promise as a psychotherapeutic agent. Still, there is some concern regarding its behavioral toxicity, and its dose-effect relationship is poorly understood. We previously explored the role of dose in the cognitive effects of MDMA in a systematic review of existing literature and found no...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
March 1, 2022
China Scherz, George Mpanga, Sarah Namirembe
4 citations
In recent years, alcohol abuse and dependence have become topics of increasing concern in Uganda, but the chronic relapsing brain disease model of addiction remains only one of many ways of understanding and addressing alcohol-related problems there. For many Ugandan Pentecostals and spirit mediums to be addicted is to be under the control of a being that comes from outside the self. Where...
Scholars International Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
February 26, 2022
B Ammu, S. Devi
Alcohol dependence has been showing a rising trend all over the world including India. Alcohol consumption has health and social consequences via intoxication, alcohol dependence and other biochemical effects of alcohol. Exposure and desensitization, thought-monitoring, relaxation, and acceptance, have all been suggested as potential active ingredients of mindfulness training which could help...
Journal of Substance Use
February 14, 2022
Tara G Bautista, Hortensia Amaro
Objective: This study assessed the preintervention predictors of participant initial satisfaction and uptake of mindfulness practices during an MBI (Moment-by-Moment in Women's Recovery). Methods: Data from 100 women (Mage = 32.38 years, 60% Latina) in residential SUD treatment randomly assigned to the MBI were used to assess baseline participant demographics and clinical characteristics and...
CNS Drugs
February 14, 2022
Jennifer Swainson, L. Klassen, Stefan Brennan et al.
42 citations
Intravenous (IV) ketamine is increasingly used off-label at subanesthetic doses for its rapid antidepressant effect, and intranasal (IN) esketamine has been recently approved in several countries for treating depression. The clinical utility of these treatments is limited by a paucity of publicly funded IV ketamine and IN esketamine programs and cost barriers to private treatment programs, as...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
February 10, 2022
Matthew B Pomrenze, Franciely Paliarin, Rajani Maiya
27 citations
Substance use disorders in humans have significant social influences, both positive and negative. While prosocial behaviors promote group cooperation and are naturally rewarding, distressing social encounters, such as aggression exhibited by a conspecific, are aversive and can enhance the sensitivity to rewarding substances, promote the acquisition of drug-taking, and reinstate drug-seeking. On...
Perspectives In Psychiatric Care
February 5, 2022
Seda Er, Sevim Buzlu
AIMS This study examined the relationships between self-transcendence and depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and locus of control in persons with substance abuse disorder (SUDs). METHODS This descriptive-relational study examined 115 participants who had been diagnosed with SUD. RESULTS High self-transcendence scores were positively associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, higher...
Routledge eBooks
January 25, 2022
Christie Nelson
1 citation
Helping professionals who treat addiction will encounter clients from myriad religious and spiritual backgrounds. This chapter addresses the grief and related shame and guilt associated with loss due to addiction from a Buddhist perspective. Buddhist principles such as mindfulness have been integrated into many Western psychotherapeutic programs focused on the treatment of substance use...