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CHOICE, BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS AND ADDICTION This Page Intentionally Left Blank 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 Pergamon An imprint of Elsevier Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford - Paris San Diego - San Francisco - Singapore - Sydney - Tokyo ELSEVffiR Ltd The Boulevard, Langford Lane Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright by Elsevier, and the following terms and conditions apply to its use: Photocopying Single photocopies of single chapters may be made for personal use as allowed by national copyright laws. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record from the British Library has been applied for. ISBN: 0-08-044056-8 @ The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). Printed in The Netherlands. 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 This Page Intentionally Left Blank 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

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Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction is about the theory, data, and applied implications of choice-based models of substance use and addiction. The distinction between substance use and addiction is important, because many individuals use substances but are not also addicted to them. The beha
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