Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: An Evidence-Based Treatment for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use

The opioid crisis arose in part due to the attempt to relieve chronic pain. Meeting a huge need, this is the authoritative presentation of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) for chronic pain and opioid use. MORE is one of the few evidence-based treatments shown to simultaneously reduce opioid use and/or addiction, pain, and co-occurring emotional distress. MORE integrates mindfulness training with principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy and positive psychology. In a convenient large-size format, the book provides everything needed to set up and run MORE groups. Treatment developer Eric L. Garland supplies session-by-session guidelines, sample scripts, clinical pointers, guided practices, and psychoeducational resources, including 16 reproducible handouts that can be photocopied or downloaded.

Eric L. Garland, PhD, LCSW, is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Utah College of Social Work, where he is also Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development. Dr. Garland is the developer of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement. He has published more than 240 scientific papers and has conducted extensive clinical trials of mindfulness for addiction and chronic pain. Dr. Garland is an appointed member of the Multi-Disciplinary Working Group that assists the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH HEAL Initiative). In 2021, a bibliometric analysis of mindfulness research published over the past 55 years found Dr. Garland to be the most prolific author of mindfulness research in the world.