| The Impact of Telehealth Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement Compared to Usual Care among Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder and Pain
These investigators evaluated the efficacy of methadone treatment as usual (usual care) compared to telehealth Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) plus usual care among people with opioid use disorder and pain. The MORE plus usual care participants attended eight weekly, two-hour telehealth groups that provided training in mindfulness, reappraisal, and savoring in addition to usual care. A total of 154 participants with an average age of 48 were included in the study. Participants receiving MORE plus usual care had significantly less return to drug use and dropout from methadone treatment than those receiving usual care only. The MORE participants also had reduced depression scores and assessments of pain through the 16-week follow-up to a significantly greater extent than usual care. The authors concluded that telehealth MORE was a feasible adjunct to methadone treatment with significant effects on drug use, pain, depression, treatment retention, and adherence. Cooperman NA, Lu S-E, Hanley A W, et al. JAMA Psychiatry. 2024;81(4):338-346. |
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