Enhancement Motives Mediate the Positive Association Between Mind/Body Awareness and College Student Drinking.

This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between mindfulness and alcohol consumption among college students, with enhancement and coping motives evaluated as potential mediators. Differences between men and women in drinking and mindfulness (mind/body awareness specifically) were also considered. Undergraduate students (n = 212, 51% male) completed a survey that included measures of mindfulness, drinking motives, and drinking.

Brief report: Training internists in shared decision making about chronic opioid treatment for noncancer pain.

Background: The use of chronic opioids for noncancer pain is an increasingly common and difficult problem in primary care.

Objective: To test the effects on physicians' self-reported attitudes and behavior of a shared decision-making training for opioid treatment of chronic pain.

Design: Randomized-controlled trial.

Spirituality, mindfulness and substance abuse.

A growing body of research suggests that mindfulness-based therapies may be effective in treating a variety of disorders including stress, chronic pain, depression and anxiety. However, there are few valid and reliable measures of mindfulness. Furthermore, mindfulness is often thought to be related to spirituality, given its roots in Buddhist tradition, but empirical studies on this relationship are difficult to find.