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Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review

Background: Opiates, cannabis, and stimulants are highly abused and are prevalent disorders. Psychological interventions are crucial given that they help individuals maintain abstinence following a lapse or relapse into substance use. The dual-process theory has posited that while the repeated use o...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Melvyn W. B., Ying, Jiangbo, Wing, Tracey, Song, Guo, Fung, Daniel S. S., Smith, Helen E.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30158880
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00376
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author Zhang, Melvyn W. B.
Ying, Jiangbo
Wing, Tracey
Song, Guo
Fung, Daniel S. S.
Smith, Helen E.
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description Background: Opiates, cannabis, and stimulants are highly abused and are prevalent disorders. Psychological interventions are crucial given that they help individuals maintain abstinence following a lapse or relapse into substance use. The dual-process theory has posited that while the repeated use of a substance leads to increased automatic processing and increased automatic tendencies to approach substance-specific cues, in addition to the inhibition of other normal cognitive processes. Prior reviews are limited, as they failed to include trials involving participants with these prevalent addictive disorders or have not reviewed the published literature extensively. Objectives: The primary aim of this review is to synthesize the evidence for cognitive biases in opioid use, cannabis use, and stimulant use disorders. The secondary aim of the review is to determine if cognitive bias could be consistently detected using the different methods. Lastly, this review will narratively synthesize the evidence of possible associations between cognitive biases and other addiction-related outcomes. Methods: A search was conducted from November 2017 to January 2018 on PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Science Direct, Cochrane Central, and Scopus. Articles were included if participants had a primary diagnosis of opioid use, cannabis use, or stimulant use disorder. The selection process of the articles was in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. A qualitative synthesis was undertaken. Results: A total of 38 studies were identified. The main finding is the evidence that cognitive biases are present in the 38 studies identified, except for a single study on opioid use and stimulant use disorders. Cognitive biases were reported despite a variety of different methods being utilized. Synthesis of secondary outcome was not feasible, due to the varied outcomes reported. Conclusions: Cognitive biases have been consistently observed in opioid use, cannabis use, and stimulant use disorders, despite a range of assessment tools being utilized in the assessment for these biases.
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spelling pubmed-61041902018-08-29 Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review Zhang, Melvyn W. B. Ying, Jiangbo Wing, Tracey Song, Guo Fung, Daniel S. S. Smith, Helen E. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Background: Opiates, cannabis, and stimulants are highly abused and are prevalent disorders. Psychological interventions are crucial given that they help individuals maintain abstinence following a lapse or relapse into substance use. The dual-process theory has posited that while the repeated use of a substance leads to increased automatic processing and increased automatic tendencies to approach substance-specific cues, in addition to the inhibition of other normal cognitive processes. Prior reviews are limited, as they failed to include trials involving participants with these prevalent addictive disorders or have not reviewed the published literature extensively. Objectives: The primary aim of this review is to synthesize the evidence for cognitive biases in opioid use, cannabis use, and stimulant use disorders. The secondary aim of the review is to determine if cognitive bias could be consistently detected using the different methods. Lastly, this review will narratively synthesize the evidence of possible associations between cognitive biases and other addiction-related outcomes. Methods: A search was conducted from November 2017 to January 2018 on PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Science Direct, Cochrane Central, and Scopus. Articles were included if participants had a primary diagnosis of opioid use, cannabis use, or stimulant use disorder. The selection process of the articles was in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. A qualitative synthesis was undertaken. Results: A total of 38 studies were identified. The main finding is the evidence that cognitive biases are present in the 38 studies identified, except for a single study on opioid use and stimulant use disorders. Cognitive biases were reported despite a variety of different methods being utilized. Synthesis of secondary outcome was not feasible, due to the varied outcomes reported. Conclusions: Cognitive biases have been consistently observed in opioid use, cannabis use, and stimulant use disorders, despite a range of assessment tools being utilized in the assessment for these biases. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6104190/ /pubmed/30158880 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00376 Text en Copyright © 2018 Zhang, Ying, Wing, Song, Fung and Smith. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wing, Tracey
Song, Guo
Fung, Daniel S. S.
Smith, Helen E.
Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review
title Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review
title_full Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review
title_fullStr Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review
title_full_unstemmed Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review
title_short Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review
title_sort cognitive biases in cannabis, opioid, and stimulant disorders: a systematic review
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30158880
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00376
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