Mindfulness Techniques Can Help Treat Opioid Use Disorder, Study Finds

HealthDay (5/8, Miller) reports, “Using mindfulness to help people trying to overcome opioid addiction can boost their odds of continuing treatment, new research shows.” Researchers “found that supplementing standard opioid addiction treatment with an intervention called Mindfulness Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) cut dropout rates by 59% and relapses by 42%.” The results were published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “How Mindfulness Could Help Folks Quit Opioids,”Carole Tanzer Miller, HealthDay, May 8, 2024

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