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Behavioral economic analysis of topiramate pharmacotherapy for alcohol: a placebo-controlled investigation of effects on alcohol reinforcing value and delayed reward discounting
RationalePharmacotherapies are an important clinical strategy for treating alcohol use disorder and an understanding of their functional mechanisms...
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Heterogeneity in choice models of addiction: the role of context
RationaleTheories of addiction guide scientific progress, funding priorities, and policy development and ultimately shape how people experiencing or...
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No evidence of the clinical utility of single-item breakpoint to inform on tobacco demand in persons with substance use disorders
RationaleBehavioral economics has shown that single-item demand indicators are promising for capturing crucial aspects of nicotine reinforcement. It...
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Assessing Cannabis Demand: A Comprehensive Review of the Marijuana Purchase Task
The marijuana purchase task (MPT) is a behavioral economic measure of individualized cannabis value (i.e., demand). The MPT follows purchase tasks...
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Impulsivity and cigarette smoking: discounting of monetary and consumable outcomes in current and non-smokers
RationaleIn delay discounting, temporally remote rewards have less value. Cigarette smoking is associated with steeper discounting of delayed money....
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Altruism in time: social temporal discounting differentiates smokers from problem drinkers
RationaleRecent studies on reinforcer valuation in social situations have informed research on mental illness. Social temporal discounting may be a...
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Single- and cross-commodity discounting among cocaine addicts: the commodity and its temporal location determine discounting rate
RationaleIntertemporal choice has provided important insights into understanding addiction, predicted drug-dependence status, and outcomes of...
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Toward a Computationally Unified Behavioral-Economic Model of Addiction
This chapter describes an instance of computational constructionism applied to the understanding of drug addiction. Rather than devising models of...
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Cost analysis of school-based intermittent screening and treatment of malaria in Kenya
BackgroundThe control of malaria in schools is receiving increasing attention, but there remains currently no consensus as to the optimal...
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The Behavioral Economics of Drug Dependence: Towards the Consilience of Economics and Behavioral Neuroscience
In this chapter, we review the research in this growing field by first discussing the concepts related to price and consumption (demand), its...
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Impact of gene patents and licensing practices on access to genetic testing for long QT syndrome
Genetic testing for long QT syndrome exemplifies patenting and exclusive licensing with different outcomes at different times. Exclusive licensing...
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Delay discounting and the behavioural economics of cigarette purchases in smokers: the effects of nicotine deprivation
RationaleIn smokers, nicotine deprivation may increase impulsive decision-making and the demand for cigarettes.
ObjectivesTo investigate the effects...
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Mild opioid deprivation increases the degree that opioid-dependent outpatients discount delayed heroin and money
Abstract
Rationale. A growing literature suggests that excessive temporal discounting of delayed rewards may be a contributing factor in the etiology...