Cognitive Bias Modification for Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain Did Not Predict Changes in Clinical Outcomes

Results from this pilot study did not show changes in pain severity or opioid craving corresponding to CBM for opioid and pain. Findings should be considered preliminary given our small sample size; however, findings indicate a distinction between attentional biases, their modification, and clinically salient outcomes. Future research should examine CBM in larger, more diverse samples and assess the impacts of addiction severity, substance type, naturalistic settings, and more engaging methodologies (e.g., gamification of CBM tasks, using gaze-contingent paradigms).