The party's not over: Living situation, perceived party norms, and drinking games behavior among college students during the pandemic (COVID-19).

 Playing drinking games (DGs) is a common, socially-interactive risky drinking activity. During the pandemic, many students either returned home to live with their parents or remained on campus. Because DGs often require social interaction, playing DGs in-person can increase students' risk for COVID-19 exposure.

It takes a village: Feedback from personnel in addiction treatment programs indicates support for changing the intake process.

Introduction: The initial intake encounter represents a critical point for treatment engagement in outpatient addiction treatment programs. Despite the intake assessment being more comprehensive, personalized, and capable of matching clients to level of treatment, addiction treatment programs continue to have among the highest attrition rates. Thus, it may not be what, but how services are delivered that contributes to attrition.

Opioid Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale (OPBSS): Development and psychometric evaluation.

Protective behavioral strategies (PBS) are behaviors that individuals use to mitigate harm related to risky behaviors. Though measures have been validated to assess alcohol- and cannabis-specific PBS use, an opioid-specific PBS measure has yet to be validated. The present study developed and validated a tool to assess the extent of PBS employed by individuals who use licit and/or illicit opioids.

Social and cognitive determinants of medications for opioid use disorder outcomes: A systematic review using a social determinants of health framework.

Disparities exist in the engagement and success of individuals seeking medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment. Existing work suggests that individual-level factors such as cognitive functioning influence MOUD treatment, less is known about the role of environmental factors beyond the individual such as social determinants of health (SDOH). The aim of this systematic review was to summarize the literature of neuropsychological assessment in the context of MOUD treatment using an SDOH framework.

Neither a problem nor my problem: Risk factors for underage drinking disengagement among college students.

Objective: Underage drinking disengagement (UDD; cognitive restructuring/minimizing agency) measures attitudes about the acceptability and responsibility of drinking. We examined demographic correlates of UDD, as well as the moderating effects of legal drinking status on the association between UDD and drinking.

Participants: College student drinkers ( = 893; Mage = 19.

Study Protocol for the Healing Opioid Misuse and Pain Through Engagement Trial: Integrated Treatment for Individuals With Co-occurring Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder.

Chronic pain and opioid use disorder (OUD) are public health crises and their co-occurrence has led to further complications and public health impacts. Provision of treatments for comorbid chronic pain and OUD is paramount to address these public health crises. Medications for OUD (MOUD) are gold standard treatments for OUD that have also demonstrated benefit in pain management.

Is Mindfulness Associated With Safer Cannabis Use? A Latent Profile Analysis of Dispositional Mindfulness Among College Students Who Use Cannabis.

Objectives: Previous research cites mindfulness as a protective factor against risky substance use, but the specific association between dispositional mindfulness (DM) and cannabis use has been inconsistent. Despite known heterogeneity of DM facets across college students, much of the prior research in this area has relied on variable-centered approaches. Only a handful of prior studies within the cannabis literature have utilized person-centered approaches, and only one has specifically examined unique profiles of dispositional mindfulness in relation to patterns of use among college students.

Effectiveness and feasibility of a motivational interviewing intake (MII) intervention for increasing client engagement in outpatient addiction treatment: an effectiveness-implementation hybrid design protocol.

Background: Client discontinuation from outpatient addiction treatment programs is common, and the initial intake is the service delivery point with the highest attrition rate. Replacing the comprehensive intake assessment with a person-centered Motivational Interviewing (MI) intervention is a potential solution to address provider and client concerns about the disengaging, time-intensive nature of the typical initial intake. It remains unclear whether the use of an alternative to the standard intake at the initial visit can fit within typical organizational reporting requirements, whether it decreases attrition, and whether implementation of person-centered intake procedures within outpatient addiction treatment programs is feasible, acceptable, and can be sustained.

What pandemic? A multisite study of drinking motives and drinking games participation among college students during a pandemic (COVID-19) academic year.

A drinking game (DG) is a widely practiced social activity that tends to encourage rapid alcohol consumption. While social restrictions during the pandemic (COVID-19) academic year were implemented as a health measure across many colleges/universities, the extent to which college student drinkers continued to play DGs in-person is not well understood. Because theory and research suggest that drinking motives are proximal correlates of drinking behaviors, we examined which drinking motives increased the likelihood of playing DGs in-person, and playing DGs in-person in a group of 10 + people during the 2020-21 pandemic academic year.

Who's at greatest risk? Latent profiles of alcohol and cannabis use and related consequences among college students.

Background: There is significant heterogeneity in alcohol and cannabis use patterns among college students, with some engaging in use patterns that heighten their risk for adverse consequences. Person-centered approaches can help identify those subgroups of students with riskier use patterns. Latent Profile Analyses (LPA) were conducted to identify subgroups based on alcohol and cannabis use frequency and quantity, to explore demographic covariates and to examine mean differences across subgroups on alcohol- and cannabis-related consequences, simultaneous use, and other substance use.

Quality of Life and Opioid Use Motives: Direct and Indirect Associations with Risky Opioid Use in a Community Sample of Adults.

The opioid epidemic in the United States has resulted in mass mortality and economic costs exceeding $1 trillion. Poor health-related quality of life is evident among individuals entering treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet, little research has examined the influence of quality of life on risky opioid use among non-treatment-seeking adults.

Mechanisms of quality-of-life improvement in treatment for alcohol use disorder.

Objective: For individuals in alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment, many argue that holistic indicators such as quality of life (QoL) should be more consistently used in addition to drinking-related indicators. QoL increases from pre- to post-AUD treatment, but the mechanisms are unclear. The present study examined the roles of positive and negative affect in QoL change during AUD treatment and additionally explored the relationship between QoL change and medication adherence.

Can a pure motivational interviewing intervention be manualized and still efficacious? A test of feasibility and initial efficacy.

The importance of attending to the therapeutic process despite the challenges in manualizing it is demonstrated in the empirical evolution of motivational interviewing (MI). Whereas manuals exist for adaptations of MI, no manual has been developed and tested for MI in its pure form (pure MI). This study evaluated the feasibility and initial efficacy of a pure MI intervention manual - MI for risky social drinking (MI-RSD) - designed to target risky social drinking behaviors in college students with social anxiety.

Motivational interviewing quality assurance: A systematic review of assessment tools across research contexts.

The need for sustained skill development and quality assurance when executing behavioral interventions is best demonstrated in the empirical evolution of Motivational Interviewing (MI). As a brief behavioral intervention that identifies the therapeutic process as an active treatment ingredient, it is critical for researchers, trainers, and administrators to use psychometrically sound and theoretically congruent tools to evaluate provider skills and fidelity when executing MI. Yet, no prior work has evaluated the breadth of MI tools employed across research contexts.

Examining the latent structure mechanisms for comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder.

Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric illness that can be difficult to diagnose, due in part to its comorbidity with major depressive disorder (MDD). Given that researchers have found no difference in prevalence rates of PTSD and MDD after accounting for overlapping symptoms, the latent structures of PTSD and MDD may account for the high comorbidity. In particular, the PTSD Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood (NACM) and Hyperarousal factors have been characterized as non-specific to PTSD.