End-of-day reports of daily hassles and stress in men and women with opioid-use disorder: Relationship to momentary reports of opioid and cocaine use and stress

Research across a broad range of methodologies and types of participants has shown that stress is an important factor in drug use and relapse. Supporting evidence comes from laboratory-animal studies showing that stressors increase drug seeking (Bossert et al., 2013), human laboratory studies showing that greater susceptibility to an experimental stressor predicts shorter time to relapse after release from inpatient treatment (Sinha et al., 2006; Back et al., 2010), interview-based studies of reasons for relapse in patients across various types of addictions (Marlatt and Gordon, 1985), and epidemiological studies showing, for example, that economic losses in the 2008-2009 recession were associated with increases in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems (Mulia et al., 2014).
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