When do people with chronic pain crave opioids or cannabis most?

Our new study in DAD followed patients for 30 days using real-time surveys.

🔹 Craving ↑ on co-use days
🔹 Pain catastrophizing was strongest predictor
🔹 ~⅓ reported little/no craving

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New paper in @ecp-editor.bsky.social: Trials on cannabis for chronic pain often miss what matters most to patients: sleep, coping, function, opioid substitution. Time to look beyond pain scores. 👉 doi.org/10.1037/pha0...

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1/ Our new study in BMC Public Health examines stakeholder perspectives on digital wellbeing in Saudi Arabia.
Findings point to high screen time, concerns about health impacts, and strong support for education-based interventions.
🧾 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

1/3 Had a great time at my first @researchmj.bsky.social meeting in Detroit. Fantastic science & welcoming community. Highly recommend for anyone in the cannabis research space.

We shared our work using LLMs + NLP to extract structured data from EMRs.

1/5 New paper on medicinal cannabis: We followed adults with clinically significant anxiety & depression who were new to medicinal cannabis using 8 weeks of EMA and 6 months of longitudinal follow up and saw significant and clinically meaningful benefits.
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1/2 ✨Join me at the end of May on Zoom for my Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Summer Institute! Learn to design and conduct studies with real-time data collection in everyday life. Gain hands-on experience with EMA study setup. 📱🧠
🗓️ May 28-29 📍Zoom
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1/3 Now officially published: Our re-analysis of @cjferguson1111.bsky.social's meta-analysis. Our findings suggest social media reduction or abstinence interventions can have small, but significant mental health benefits.
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doi.org/10.1037/ppm0...

1/2 In our latest paper we find that mindfulness-based interventions 🧘‍♂️📱show promise in tackling problematic tech use (gaming, social media, smartphones). Early evidence points to improved emotional self-regulation, but robust trials are needed.

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Our latest work presents a multi-stage project to develop a digital wellbeing interventions for young people in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦. We highlight the importance of cultural tailoring in intervention design & share key lessons learned. 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
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