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- Published on: 16 June 2020
- Published on: 16 June 2020The new craving measurement for methamphetamine dependents
The indicator of addiction severity in clinical studies, for a long time, relies on experienced craving report for drug-related cues. This condition ranges from both addictive assessments and diagnosis, to the estimation of clinical intervention. However, self-report of craving is susceptible to the influences of social desirability and self-masking in many situations. This necessitates the development of an objective measurement that can detect one’s real craving, which is independent of these obscuring factors.
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The article by Yuan Liang and colleagues entitled “Assessing the Severity of Methamphetamine Use Disorder Beyond the Subjective Craving Report: the Role of an Attention Bias Test” shows that attention bias test represents a more reliable indicator for the addictive severity in methamphetamine dependents. The authors observed that MA dependents, irrespective of high or low craving report, showed similar attention bias to drug-related photographs by using correlation analyses. Moreove...Conflict of Interest:
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