Mindfulness-based treatment of addiction: current state of the field and envisioning the next wave of research

Abstract Contemporary advances in addiction neuroscience have paralleled increasing interest in the ancient mental training practice of mindfulness meditation as a potential therapy for addiction. In the past decade, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been studied as a treatment for an arra...

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Main Authors: Eric L. Garland, Matthew O. Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13722-018-0115-3