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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF DRUG SELF‐ADMINISTRATION AND DRUG ABUSE POLICY
Author(s) -
Hursh Steven R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1991.56-377
Subject(s) - abuse liability , drug , substance abuse , reinforcement , variety (cybernetics) , psychological intervention , behavioral economics , drug control , public policy , psychology , public economics , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , criminology , social psychology , political science , economics , artificial intelligence , law , microeconomics
The concepts of behavioral economics have proven useful for understanding the environmental control of overall levels of responding for a variety of commodities, including reinforcement by drug self‐administration. These general concepts are summarized for application to the analysis of drug‐reinforced behavior and proposed as the basis for future applications. This behavioral agenda includes the assessment of abuse liability, the assay of drug‐reinforcer interactions, the design of drug abuse interventions, and the formulation of drug abuse public policy. These separate domains of investigation are described as part of an overall strategy for designing model projects to control drug use and testing public policy initiatives.