Anxiety sensitivity and other emotionality traits in predicting headache medication use in patients with reoccurring headaches: implications for abuse and dependency

Article Abstract:

A study of patients with reoccurring headache and anxiety sensitivity shows that anxiety sensitivity does not contribute to pain medication abuse, either prescription or nonprescription. In fact, anxiety sensitivity heightened the fear of the consequences of overuse. Opiate pain relievers were not included in this study and they might show different results.

Usage, Analgesics, Headache, Medication abuse, Prescription drug abuse

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Introduction to the special issue on "Anxiety Sensitivity and Addictive Behaviors."(Special Issue: Anxiety Sensitivity and Addictive Behaviors)

Article Abstract:

Past research into the relation between anxiety sensitivity and substance abuse is examined. People who have anxiety sensitivity are afraid of their bodies' natural reactions to stress and anxiety and these may cause them to overuse prescription drugs or abuse other addictive substances to curb the physiological symptoms that they fear.

Compulsive behavior

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The relations of trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and sensation seeking to adolescents' motivations for alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use

Article Abstract:

A study of teenagers' motivations for smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol or smoking marijuana show a strong correlation between anxiety sensitivity and sensation seeking and substance abuse. The authors suggest that intervention in cases of anxiety or thrill seeking could prevent some adolescent substance abuse.

Social aspects, Smoking, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Drinking (Alcoholic beverages), Substance abuse, Motivation (Psychology), Sensory stimulation, Adolescent anxiety, Anxiety in teenagers

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