Behavioral economics of drug self-administration and drug abuse policy. |
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Authors: | S R Hursh |
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Affiliation: | Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20307-5100. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | behavioral economics demand curve elasticity drug self-administration cost unit price FR schedule public policy design of culture |
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