Constructs derived from the addiction cycle predict alcohol use disorder treatment outcomes and recovery 3 years following treatment.

• DOI: 10.1037/adb0000871
• Publication Date: 2022-08-11T13:31:00Z
• Authors: Katie Witkiewitz; Elena R. Stein; Victoria R. Votaw; Kevin A. Hallgren; Benjamin C. Gibson; Cassandra L. Boness; Matthew R. Pearson; Stephen A. Maisto
• Keywords: Alcohol use disorder; Incentive salience; Salience (neuroscience); Gambling disorder

The addiction cycle has been proposed as a framework for understanding the progression of alcohol use disorder (AUD) in terms psychological and biological domains, including reward drinking/incentive salience, relief drinking/negative emotionality, loss control/executive functioning impairment. To have utility clinical practice, self-report measures these domains that are applicable across sociodemographic groups associated with outcomes needed. This study sought to validate from test whether measurement invariant treatment outcomes.