title: Addicts' drug-related dreams: their frequency and relationship to six-month outcomes.
abstract: 101 drug users were interviewed at baseline when 6-weeks abstinent. Eighty-four percent reported having drug-related dreams. More subjects reported drug dreams when abstinent than when using drugs. Ninety percent of subjects were followed-up at 6 months. Higher baseline measures of dream frequency were prospectively related to greater drug use. In the first 7 weeks of follow-up there was a rapid reduction in the number of reports, but half of the sample were still experiencing drug dreams in the sixth month. Drug dream frequency at follow-up was related to "craving" and lack of sleep.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London, England.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Christo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Franey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004325:Dreams; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D012008:Recurrence; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome