Redefining alcohol use disorder

Date:
January 24, 2022
Source:
University of Missouri-Columbia
Summary:
Researchers have developed a new framework that they believe will
help identify people previously overlooked for alcohol use disorder
(AUD).

This framework focuses on 13 risk factors, such as impulsive
behavior, reward sensitivity, and punishment sensitivity, that
could lead to someone developing an AUD.



FULL STORY ========================================================================== Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a new framework
that they believe will help identify people previously overlooked
for alcohol use disorder (AUD). This framework focuses on 13 risk
factors, such as impulsive behavior, reward sensitivity, and punishment sensitivity, that could lead to someone developing an AUD.


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"We know from decades of research that there are a lot of different
pathways to alcohol use disorder," said Cassie Boness, a former graduate student at MU in the Department of Psychological Sciences. "So, we
want to make sure that we are targeting people's specific pathways as accurately as possible in order to be most effective in identifying and treating AUD." Throughout her career, Boness has been interested in the causes, diagnosis and assessment of substance use disorders, including
AUD, a chronic medical condition characterized by ongoing alcohol use
despite adverse consequences.

For Boness, it's personal -- after seeing her loved ones stigmatized
for their addiction to alcohol, and then watching them struggle to
get connected with treatment, she wanted to help reduce the amount of
suffering people may experience with AUD.

While today's assessment tools, such as the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) can help health care professionals diagnose someone with AUD, Boness believes the current
methods are too narrowly focused on the consequences of someone's actions, rather than incorporating a broad list of potential risk factors that
may lead to an AUD diagnosis.

Boness, who is now a research assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, hopes their framework can be a step forward toward a comprehensive diagnosis of AUD throughout the health care community. However,
she stresses that this tool is not meant to be the only solution, but
rather a way for other researchers like her to build upon and enhance
the existing research on the subject.

"Eventually, we'd like to see assessment tools that more comprehensively capture the factors articulated in our framework so that we can identify individual profiles of risk and potentially intervene during earlier
stages of addiction," Boness said.

"The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical framework of
alcohol use disorder: a translational systematic review of reviews,"
was published in Psychological Bulletin. Other authors on the study
include Ashley Watts, Kimberly Moeller and Ken Sher at MU. Funding was
provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health (F31AA026177, K99AA028306, R01-AA024133 and T32AA13526). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the
official views of the funding agencies.

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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Cassandra L. Boness, Ashley L. Watts, Kimberly N. Moeller,
Kenneth J.

Sher. The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical
framework of alcohol use disorder: A translational systematic
review of reviews..

Psychological Bulletin, 2021; 147 (10): 1075 DOI: 10.1037/bul0000333 ==========================================================================

Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220124194955.htm

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