“…Longer interference scores for emotion-laden words are interpreted as a preoccupation with the drugrelated stimuli. Increased interference time for drug-related words has been shown in subjects with dependence on cocaine (Copersino et al, 2004;Carpenter et al, 2006;Hester et al, 2006), alcohol (Bauer and Cox, 1998;Cox et al, 2002;Lusher et al, 2004), heroin (Franken et al, 2000), and nicotine (Gross et al, 1993;Wertz and Sayette, 2001;Waters et al, 2003). It has been proposed that this preoccupation with drug-related stimuli is a form of attentional bias thought to underlie relapse (Franken, 2003;Copersino et al, 2004).…”