Cognitive behavioral therapy was found to be more effective in reducing the use of nonmedical opioids compared with standard methadone drug counseling in patients with chronic pain and opioid use disorder enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment programs.
Baseline depressive symptoms were associated with pain and disability in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
The presence of sleep disorders in children with chronic pain may result in greater pain levels and pain interference, a relationship that may in part be mediated by anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Patients with conversion disorder had higher frequencies of significant stressors than did control patients.
Mindfulness, an awareness of one’s present experience without labeling it as good or bad, is a fundamental skill taught in dialectical behavior therapy group skills training.
Clinician awareness of this issue is essential in order to continue providing effective treatment while attempting to reduce abuse of these prescription drugs.
Researchers calculated age-standardized mortality rates on a county level in the United States between 1980 and 2014, specifically examining rates for self-harm, interpersonal violence, alcohol use, and drug use.
Researchers believe that the large increases in clinical ADHD diagnoses were unlikely to be representative of a real bump in prevalence.
The BFNE-S was determined to be the best self-reported tool for measuring patient social fears.
Despite the recognition that early daily tobacco use likely increases the risk for later psychosis, investigation of the effect of covariates such as substance use, existing psychotic features, or parental/family factors was lacking in the literature.
