Immediate Effects of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy as an Adjunct to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder.
Mindfulness November 1, 2024 Cynthia J Price, Kenneth C Pike, Anna Treadway et al. 9 citations
A mindfulness-based intervention teaching interoceptive awareness skills, added to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), did not reduce substance use more than MOUD alone in a stable treatment population. However, participants who received the mindfulness training showed significant improvements in PTSD symptoms, interoceptive awareness, pain severity, pain-related activity interference, and physical symptom frequency. The study involved 303 adults stabilized on MOUD from six community clinics in the Northwestern United States, randomly assigned to either the mindfulness intervention plus MOUD or MOUD only. Findings suggest that interoceptive training can improve multiple health outcomes critical for supporting MOUD treatment, even when substance use levels are already low.