Weekly assessments included self-reports of craving for amphetamine using a seven-point Craving for Amphetamine Scale, adapted from the Desire for Alcohol scale 34, and safety assessments, including adverse events (AE) monitoring, using a standardized form.
Desire is the state of craving for something.
Verheul et al [ 3] proposed three types of craving – reward craving, relief craving and obsessive craving.
Hence, single-item rating of subjective craving may not well manifest the nature of craving.
These include positive moderating effects of craving inductions by minor alleles of the OPRM1, DRD2 TaqI A, and SLC6A3 genes [[ 77, 78]; cf. [ 37]], although at this point these represent isolated reports.
Craving ('desire to use heroin') was assessed 60 min after placebo/heroin treatment using the 45-item Heroin Craving Questionnaire (Tiffany, 1999), which measures positive and negative aspects of craving on five theory-derived nine-item scales.
Patients expressed their level of craving in the preceding week by making a mark on a 10 cm line, ranging from no craving at one end to the most intensive craving ever experienced at the other end.
At one point, craving company of any description, she bares her bosom to a fourteen-year-old boy, who assumes the taut, stunned expression of someone who has been given the biggest toy in the store but no instruction manual.
At this point, I was craving for something to explode.
I wasn't sure what "mincemeat" was but at this point I craved any kind of variety.
