Drug addiction may be a goal-directed choice driven by excessive drug value in negative
affective states, a habit driven by strong stimulus− response associations, or a compulsion …

Background The psychological treatment of comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
and substance use disorder (SUD) is clinically challenging, and outcomes are often poor …

The motivational model of substance use posits that four motive subtypes (coping,
enhancement, social, conformity) dynamically interact with contextual factors to affect …

Background Knowledge of how drinking motives are differentially associated with alcohol
use (eg, frequency, quantity) and drinking problems is critical in understanding risky drinking …

In this review, we detail the clinical evidence supporting the role of psychological and
physiological stress in instrumental motivation for alcohol consumption during the …

Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary …

Objective: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience elevated rates of
minority stress, which has been linked to higher rates of nicotine and substance use …

Between-subjects literature has established that trait-like negative mood predicts coping
motives, which predict alcohol-related problems and that trait-like positive mood predicts …

Background: Although the increasing availability of mobile health (mHealth) apps may
enable people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to better self-manage …

While self-medication and positive and negative reinforcement models of alcohol use
suggest that there is an association between daily affect and alcohol consumption, findings …