NIH R01 · 2025
PROJECT SUMMARY The United States is experiencing an opioid use and overdose crisis. To address this crisis, programs that provide medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are being expanded and enhanced. MOUD is the most effective intervention for an OUD, and methadone treatment (MT) is the most commonly prescribed MOUD; however, approximately half of people who begin MT discontinue within a year, and half of people retained in MT use opioids within six months. Physical pain, emotion dysregulation, and reward processing deficits, affecting most people on MT, could be contributing to their ongoing opioid use. Novel behavioral interventions that address physical pain, emotion dysregulation,…
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