Journal article
A behavioral economic measure of demand for alcohol predicts brief intervention outcomes
Abstract
Considerable basic and clinical research supports a behavioral economic conceptualization of alcohol and drug dependence. One behavioral economic approach to assess motivation for a drug is the use of demand curves, or quantitative representations of drug consumption and drug-reinforced responding across a range of prices. This study used a hypothetical alcohol purchase task to generate demand curves, and examined whether the resulting demand …
Authors
MacKillop J; Murphy JG
Journal
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol. 89, No. 2-3, pp. 227–233
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 10, 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.01.002
ISSN
0376-8716