Introduction
OUD
DISORDER
First-line treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD) include medications,One possible intervention involves the harnessing of placebo effects. Broadly defined, placebo effects are improvements in symptoms attributable to the therapeutic encounterAn additional method of harnessing placebo effects implements pharmacologic (pavlovian) conditioning, wherein a medication’s therapeutic effects are conferred to placebos following repeated pairings with the drug.