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Short, Animated Storytelling Video to Reduce Addiction Stigma in 13,500 Participants Across Multiple Countries Through an Online Approach: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Short, Animated Storytelling Video to Reduce Addiction Stigma in 13,500 Participants Across Multiple Countries Through an Online Approach: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Stigma toward people with addiction is a well-documented phenomenon that dramatically impacts recovery by discouraging help-seeking behavior, isolating those affected, and increasing the likelihood of shame-related comorbidities such as anxiety and depression [1]. Similar to stigma in other domains, stigma toward people with addiction involves prejudice and discrimination, leading to compounding sequelae such as avoidance, self-stigmatization, and failure to seek treatment [2].

Maya Adam, Maxwell Klapow, Merlin Greuel, Misha Seeff, Julia K Rohr, Andrew Gordon, Doron Amsalem, Till Bärnighausen

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e73382

Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Patient-Reported Experience Measures in Addiction Treatment Services in Belgium: Naturalistic, Longitudinal, Multicenter Cohort Study

Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Patient-Reported Experience Measures in Addiction Treatment Services in Belgium: Naturalistic, Longitudinal, Multicenter Cohort Study

Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Short Form v1.0—Alcohol Use 7a (PROMIS-Alcohol) PROMIS SF v1.0—Severity of Substance Use 7a (PROMIS-Substance) Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI) National Health Service Treatment Outcomes Profile for Substance Misuse—section 1 (TOP-S1) PROMIS Scale v1.2—Global Health (PROMIS-GH-10) Substance Use Recovery Evaluator (SURE) Brief version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQo L-BREF) Patient-reported experience measures Patient-Reported Experience Measure for Addiction

Amine Zerrouk, Charlotte Migchels, Clara De Ruysscher, Kim Fernandez, Jerome Antoine, Florian De Meyer, Frieda Matthys, Wim van den Brink, Cleo Lina Crunelle, Wouter Vanderplasschen

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e65686

Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

Social media platforms have been shown to be effective for recruitment in studies of populations reporting addiction, mental health problems, and other hard-to-reach populations [11,12,14,15,17-19]. In addition, while some racial or ethnic minority groups and people of lower income have had less access to internet services historically [20], studies have also shown that social media recruitment effectively engages low-socioeconomic status and racial and ethnic minority participants [16,21-23].

Elizabeth D Nesoff, Joseph J Palamar, Qingyue Li, Wenqian Li, Silvia S Martins

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e63687

Demographics and Use of an Addiction Helpline for Concerned Significant Others: Observational Study

Demographics and Use of an Addiction Helpline for Concerned Significant Others: Observational Study

Historically, the addiction field has considered the family to be the cause of or an “enabler” of their LO’s addiction [10,11]. A growing body of evidence shows, however, that when families are provided with support and information, they are, in turn, able to effectively support their LO, and this is associated with positive outcomes for both the CSO and the LO.

Rachel Chernick, Amanda Sy, Sarah Dauber, Lindsey Vuolo, Bennett Allen, Fred Muench

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e55621

Creation of the ECHO Idaho Podcast: Tutorial and Pilot Assessment

Creation of the ECHO Idaho Podcast: Tutorial and Pilot Assessment

Reference 11: Evaluation of an opioid and addiction treatment tele-education program for healthcare providersaddiction

Ryan Wiet, Madeline P Casanova, Jonathan D Moore, Sarah M Deming, Russell T Baker Jr

JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e55313

Evaluating Perceptions of the CANreduce 2.0 eHealth Intervention for Cannabis Use: Focus Group Study

Evaluating Perceptions of the CANreduce 2.0 eHealth Intervention for Cannabis Use: Focus Group Study

The professional FG comprised 4 mental health and addiction specialists with experience in using digital tools. All professionals were members of the Primary Care Network for Addictions (RIAPAd) and were involved in promoting the CANreduce 2.0 improvement study for future implementation in addiction treatment centers. These participants were invited via email. In total, 3 FG sessions were conducted: 2 for users (n=6) and 1 for professionals (n=4).

Daniel Folch-Sanchez, Maria Pellicer-Roca, María Agustina Sestelo, Paola Zuluaga, Francisco Arias, Pablo Guzmán Cortez, Salma Amechat, Gustavo Gil-Berrozpe, Estefania Lopez Montes, Clara Mercadé, Francina Fonseca, Laia Miquel, Joan I Mestre-Pintó

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e65025

Supplemental Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Patients With a Co-Occurring Anxiety Disorder: Technical Development and Functional Testing of an Autonomous Digital Program

Supplemental Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Patients With a Co-Occurring Anxiety Disorder: Technical Development and Functional Testing of an Autonomous Digital Program

Our core lab team includes clinical addiction researchers, statisticians, addiction therapists, lab manager or coordinators, and research assistants. However, we found it necessary to identify and recruit several specialists to develop the program. As described in detail below, our early encounters with technologists were less productive than they might have been due to our lack of a coherent model for communicating the program’s contents.

Linda Marie Rinehart, Justin Anker, Amanda Unruh, Nikki Degeneffe, Paul Thuras, Amie Norden, Lilly Hartnett, Matt Kushner

JMIR Form Res 2024;9:e62995

Study to Evaluate the Comparative Efficacy of Medhya Rasayana (Pharmacological) Versus Nonpharmacological Interventions in Management of Gadget Addiction in Children: Protocol for Parallel, Triple-Arm, Randomized Clinical Trial

Study to Evaluate the Comparative Efficacy of Medhya Rasayana (Pharmacological) Versus Nonpharmacological Interventions in Management of Gadget Addiction in Children: Protocol for Parallel, Triple-Arm, Randomized Clinical Trial

Research reveals that stressful environmental conditions promote human addiction [6]. Gadget addiction is a type of behavioral addiction; these addictions are similar to drug addiction except that in the case of gadget addiction, the person is not addicted to the substance but to the behavior or feeling brought about by the use of a gadget [7]. The mesolimbic brain circuit plays a significant role in behavior due to addiction [8].

Prasad Yewale, Renu Rathi, Swapnali Mate

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e51833

Detection and Characterization of Online Substance Use Discussions Among Gamers: Qualitative Retrospective Analysis of Reddit r/StopGaming Data

Detection and Characterization of Online Substance Use Discussions Among Gamers: Qualitative Retrospective Analysis of Reddit r/StopGaming Data

This has led to the concept of online gaming as an addiction in the 1990s and, more recently, the recognition of gaming disorder as a behavioral addiction by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the proposal of internet gaming disorder (IGD) in the latest edition of the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [Fifth Edition]) as a tentative psychiatric disorder that requires further study by the American Psychological Association (APA) [2,4].

Nicolette Le, Tiana McMann, Luning Yang, Zhuoran Li, Raphael E Cuomo, Tim K Mackey

JMIR Infodemiology 2024;4:e58201