'At 9 months post-treatment, 45% of participants in the mindfulness group were no longer misusing opioids, and 36% had cut their opioid use in half or greater.'
of obsessive/compulsive opioid use, and to mitigate pain and opioid craving by reinterpreting these experiences as benign/neutral sensory information. Participants are taught to break down the experience of pain or opioid craving into their sensory components, tuning in to what they are feeling and breaking it down into different sensations like heat, tightness, or tingling. They are trained to notice how those experiences change over time and to adopt the perspective of an observer.
The primary mechanisms of action in the MORE approach are training people how to step back and observe their experiences of pain and opioid craving from the perspective of an objective observer, rather than getting caught up in and becoming attached to and becoming effectively controlled by the pain or craving.
Butler SF, Budman SH, Fernandez KC, et al. Development and validation of the Current Opioid Misuse Measure. Pain. 2007;130:144-156. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2007.01.014
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