The contribution of psychotherapy in potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics for treatment of opioid use disorder.
Current addiction reports January 1, 2025 Anahita Bassir Nia, Yalda Farahmand, Garret Griffith et al.
A review of trials on psychedelics for opioid use disorder (OUD) found no studies directly comparing different types of psychotherapy or testing psychedelics with versus without concurrent psychotherapy. Most research on alleviating opioid withdrawal symptoms did not include psychotherapy. The few studies on ketamine and LSD for opioid use and abstinence used a psychedelic-assisted therapy model. There is insufficient high-quality evidence to determine whether concurrent psychotherapy is necessary in psychedelic trials for OUD. Future trials should explore the interplay between psychedelic treatment and psychotherapy.