Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction

459 Pages·2003·25.18 MB·English

by  Nick Heather

CHOICE, BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS
AND ADDICTION
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CHOICE, BEHAVIOURAL
ECONOMICS AND ADDICTION
EDITED BY
RUDY E. VUCHINICH
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL, USA.
NICK HEATHER
School of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Northumbria University, UK
2003
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xiii
1. Introduction: Overview of Behavioural Economic Perspectives on Substance
Use and Addiction 1
Part I: Views from Four Theories of Addiction
2. Hyperbolic Discounting as a Factor in Addiction: A Critical Analysis 35
George Ainslie and John Monterosso
Comments on Ainslie and Monterosso 62
William R. Miller
Reply to Miller 67
George Ainslie and John Monterosso
3. Evolving Models of Addictive Behavior: From Neoclassical to
Behavioral Economics 71
Frank J. Chaloupka, Sherry Emery and Lan Liang
Comments on Chaloupka, Emery and Liang 90
Robert MacCoun
4. Consumption Dependent Changes in Reward Value: A Framework for
Understanding Addiction 95
Gene M. Heyman
Comments on Heyman 122
Suzanne H. Mitchell
5. Economic Concepts in the Behavioral Study of Addiction 129
Howard Rachlin
Comments on Rachlin 150
Rudy E. Vuchinich
VI Contents
Part II: Other Perspectives on Addiction
6. Addiction: Definitions and Mechanisms 15
Ole-J0rgen Skog
Comments on Skog 17
Nick Heather
Reply to Heather 18
Ole-J0rgen Skog
7. Choosing Delayed Rewards: Perspectives from Learning Theory,
Neurochemistry, and Neuroanatomy 18
Rudolf N. Cardinal, Trevor Robbins and Barry J. Everitt
Comments on Cardinal, Robbins and Everitt 21
Warren K. Bickel
Reply to Bickel 21
Rudolf N. Cardinal, Trevor Robbins and Barry J. Everitt
8. Reason and Addiction 21
Olav Gjelsvik
Comments on Gjelsvik 23
George Ainslie
Reply to Ainslie 24
Olav Gjelsvik
9. Junk Time: Pathological Behavior as the Interaction of Evolutionary and
Cultural Forces 24
Warren K. Bickel and Matthew W. Johnson
Comments on Bickel and Johnson 27
Keith Humphreys
Reply to Humphreys 27
Warren K. Bickel and Matthew W. Johnson
Part III: Empirical Studies of Addiction
10. Rational Addiction and Injection of Heroin 28
Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen
Comments on Bretteville-Jensen 30
Michael A. Morrisey
Reply to Morrisey 30
Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen
11. Social Interaction and Drug Use: Rachlin vs. Schelling 30
Hans O. Melberg
Comments on Melberg 33
Howard Rachlin
Reply to Rachlin 33
Hans O. Melberg
Contents vii
12. Discounting the Value of Commodities According to Different Types of Cost 339
Suzanne H. Mitchell
Comments on Mitchell 35
Gene M. Heyman
Part IV: Practical Implications
13. Merging Behavioral Economic and Public Health Approaches to the
Delivery of Services for Substance Abuse: Concepts and Applications 365
Jalie A. Tucker and Cathy A. Simpson
Comments on Tucker and Simpson 37
Thomas F. Babor
14. Is the Addiction Concept Useful for Drug Policy? 38
Robert MacCoun
Comments on MacCoun 40
Charles R. Schuster
Reply to Schuster 40
Robert MacCoun
Concluding Comments 40
Nick Heather and Rudy E. Vuchinich
Author Index 42
Subject Index 43
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Contributors
George Ainslie MD
116A Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, PA 19320, USA
Thomas F. Babor Ph.D.
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School
of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-6325, USA
Warren K. Bickel Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, 38 Fletcher Place,
Burhngton, VT 05401, USA
Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen Ph.D.
National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS), 0vre Slottsgate 2B, Box 565,
Sentrum, 0105 Oslo, Norway
Rudolf N. Cardinal Ph.D., M.D.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Frank J. Chaloupka Ph.D.
Department of Economics, Health Research and PoHcy Centers, University of Illinois at
Chicago, 850 W. Jackson Blvd, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Sherry L. Emery Ph.D.
Health Research and Policy Centers, University of Illinois at Chicago, 850 W. Jackson Blvd,
Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Barry J. Everitt Ph.D.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Olav Gjelsvik D.Phil.
Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1024, Blindem, 0315 Oslo Norway
Nick Heather Ph.D.
School of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NEl 8ST, UK