Recent research suggests mindfulness meditation may be effective in preventing relapses of drug and alcohol abuse.

Sarah Bowen, a researcher at the University of Washington, says of the people who seek help with an addiction each year, 40 to 60 percent relapse.

A recent study divided people who had completed substance abuse programs into treatments using three different approaches: 正念冥想, relapse-prevention, and the 12-step method.

The participants were assessed at three intervals over the following year. Twelve months later, fewer meditation participants reported relapsing – in the case of both drug and alchohol use – than participants from the other two treatments.

For more about the study, 点击这里. You can also read the report on the trial, 这里.

要阅读更多内容，可以查看Elisha Goldstein关于使用正念技术应对成瘾的文章。还可以参见Mindful的前助理编辑Carsten Knox与Judson Brewer的访谈，他的“Craving to Quit”项目和手机应用程序帮助人们应对吸烟成瘾问题。