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Opioids, Addiction, and the Promise of Psychological Interventions
Can psychological science provide safer approaches to managing chronic pain and overcoming addiction?
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Careers Up Close: Woo-Young Ahn on Delineating Disorders
This Seoul National University professor uses computational modeling to identify the behavioral markers of addiction.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on cultures of sustainability, cognitive-bias modification to treat addiction, probabilistic biases, cognitive training, the development of working memory, acquisition of fears and phobias, and a sleep-and-memory research program.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on sexual-trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), pornography use, eating disorders, clinical practice guidelines, and acute stress and cortisol.
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Inability to Feel Pleasure Could Influence Opioid Addiction Treatment, Scientists Say
A team of clinical scientists is examining a possible psychological symptom that may heighten craving and risk of replace for people recovering from opioid dependence.dependence.
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Innovative Addiction Treatments Hold Promise for Stemming the Opioid Crisis
In a new issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, researchers propose novel treatment strategies, based on advances in brain science, that could help prevent abuse of opioids and other drugs.