Mood, cue and gender influences on motivation, craving and liking for alcohol in recreational drinkers

Willner, Paul; Field, Matt; Pitts, Khalid R.; Reeve, Gordon R.

doi:10.1097/00008877-199811000-00018

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“…However, this study differs from Chaplin in that the women in the present study exhibited greater craving than the men. This study also contrasts with Nesic and Duka (2006) and Willner et al (1998) studies of heavy drinkers that respectively reported higher alcohol consumption and higher craving in male subjects than in females. These studies however, used distinct methodologies, such as the TSST, followed by alcohol self-administration (Nesic & Duka, 2006) and administration of a priming dose of alcohol (Willner et al, 1998).…”

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“…Studies of sex differences in alcohol craving have also yielded mixed results. For example, Willner, Field, Pitts, and Reeve (1998) reported that male, but not female, social drinkers showed greater craving for alcohol after consumption of a priming dose of alcohol (i.e., small alcoholic beverage). In a study of cue reactivity, it was found that women were more reactive to alcohol cues than men when in a negative mood state (Rubonis, Colby, Monti, Rohsenow et al, 1994).…”

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Sex moderates stress reactivity in heavy drinkers

Hartwell

Ray

2013

Addictive Behaviors

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• Study examined stress effects on craving and mood among heavy drinkers.• Females showed greater stress-induced craving and negative mood than males.• The relationship between mood and craving was stronger among females. Psychological stress and alcohol use disorders have a well-known connection. Individual differences in stress reactivity have been an area of interest in alcohol research, particularly given the relationship between craving and stress reactivity to later relapse. The present study examines the role of sex on stress-induced alcohol craving and emotional reactivity using a guided imagery stress paradigm. Participants were 64 non-treatment seeking heavy drinkers from the community who completed a two-session protocol that included two guided imagery exposures, Stress and Neutral. Participants reported their mood and craving before and after each exposure using the Differential Emotions Scale and the Alcohol Urge Questionnaire respectively. Analyses revealed a significant Stress × Sex × Trial effect on craving [F (1,61) = 5.35; p b .05] after controlling for AUDIT scores [F (1,61) = 8.16; p b .01] such that females reported greater increases in craving from baseline to post-imagery during the stress imagery versus the neutral imagery condition, than did males. Mood reactivity analysis showed similar patterns. Specifically, there was a significant Stress × Sex × Trial effect on the anxiety subscale of the DES [F (1,61) = 15.81; p b .001] such that females reported greater increases in anxiety from baseline to post-imagery during the stress imagery versus the neutral conditions, than did males. These results suggest that female heavy drinkers were more sensitive to the effects of the stress-induction on alcohol craving and mood reactivity than males. If supported by future studies, these initial findings may help advance understanding of the mechanisms of stress and mood regulation as central to alcoholism liability and recovery in females. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o

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Sex moderates stress reactivity in heavy drinkers

Hartwell

Ray

2013

Addictive Behaviors

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“…There is a growing literature that alcohol and drug abusing individuals show greater cue reactivity than recreational users of alcohol and drugs (Glautier et al 1992;Greeley et al 1993;Kaplan et al 1985;Pomerleau et al 1983;Willner et al 1998). While social drinkers report increases in cue-induced alcohol craving, findings on behavioral and physiological responses to cues in social drinkers are weak and quite mixed in the literature (Carter and Tiffany 1999b;Litt and Cooney 1999).…”

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Modeling Relapse Situations in the Human Laboratory

Sinha

2011

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

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It is well known that alcoholism is a chronic relapsing illness. While stress significantly impacts alcoholism risk, there is also evidence that increasing levels of alcohol use affect peripheral and central stress and reward pathways thereby setting up a reciprocal relationship among the effects of alcohol consumption of the development, course of and recovery from alcoholism. This chapter reviews our efforts in assessing the integrity of stress pathways in alcoholism by examining whether altered responses of the stress pathways play a role in relapse risk. Using validated human laboratory procedures to model two of the most common situations that contribute to relapse risk, we review how such models in the laboratory can predict subsequent alcohol relapse. Empirical findings from human laboratory and brain imaging studies are reviewed to show that specific stress-related dysregulation accompanies the alcohol craving state in alcohol-dependent individuals, and such dysregulation along with increases in alcohol seeking are predictive of increased alcohol relapse risk. Finally, the significant implications of these findings for the development of novel treatment interventions that target stress processes and alcohol craving to improve alcoholism relapse outcomes are discussed.

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“…Session material has been based on a variety of sources relevant to patients with dual diagnosis (e.g., Mueser, Noordsy, Drake, & Fox, 2003;Velasquez, Maurer, Crouch, & DiClemente, 2001), taking into account gender-specifi c differences. This programme includes the link for women between substance misuse and childhood abuse (physical, sexual and emotional) (Hawkings & Gilbert, 2004), that mood state may infl uence cravings in distinct ways according to gender (Willner, Field, Pitts, & Reeve, 1998), and that there are gender differences in physical and psychiatric co-morbidities and metabolisms (Zilberman, Tavares, Blume, & El-Guebaly, 2002).…”

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The development of a ‘best practice’ service for women in a medium‐secure psychiatric setting: treatment components and evaluation

Long

Fulton

Hollin

2008

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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The inadequacy of inpatient facilities for women with severe psychiatric and co-morbid difficulties has been repeatedly documented. The establishment of effective therapeutic programmes for women in medium psychiatric facilities is also in their infancy, and little research has been undertaken. This article describes the development of a 'best practice' psychological treatment programme for women with a dual diagnosis. Emphasis is placed on the need to develop further intensive gender-specific services using an established model for effective therapeutic service development. In addition to a detailed description of the group therapy programme, staff training initiatives, methods for ensuring treatment integrity and a methodology for service evaluation is given.

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Mood, cue and gender influences on motivation, craving and liking for alcohol in recreational drinkers

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Sex moderates stress reactivity in heavy drinkers

Sex moderates stress reactivity in heavy drinkers

Modeling Relapse Situations in the Human Laboratory

The development of a ‘best practice’ service for women in a medium‐secure psychiatric setting: treatment components and evaluation

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