A contextualized reinforcer pathology approach to addiction

SF Acuff, J MacKillop, JG Murphy - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Mechanisms of behavior change in substance use disorder with and without formal treatment

K Witkiewitz, RA Pfund, JA Tucker - Annual Review of Clinical …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
This article provides a narrative review of studies that examined mechanisms of behavior
change in substance use disorder. Several mechanisms have some support, including self …

Whole person recovery from substance use disorder: a call for research examining a dynamic behavioral ecological model of contexts supportive of recovery

K Witkiewitz, JA Tucker - Addiction Research & Theory, 2025‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background Abstinence has long been considered the defining feature of recovery from
substance use disorder, with a focus on individual level factors associated with abstinence …

[HTML][HTML] Relative expected value of drugs versus competing rewards underpins vulnerability to and recovery from addiction

L Hogarth, M Field - Behavioural Brain Research, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Behavioural economic theories of addiction contend that greater expected value of drug
relative to alternative non-drug rewards is the core mechanism underpinning vulnerability to …

Recovery from addiction: Behavioral economics and value-based decision making.

M Field, N Heather, JG Murphy, T Stafford… - Psychology of …, 2020‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Behavioral economics provides a general framework to explain the shift in behavioral
allocation from substance use to substance-free activities that characterizes recovery from …

Role of relative-reinforcement value of alcohol-free activities during recovery from alcohol use disorder in an adult clinical sample.

A Kuhlemeier, JA Tucker… - Experimental and clinical …, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Behavioral economic theory has been extensively applied to understand alcohol use
disorder (AUD). Applications of behavioral economic theory conceptualize AUD as a pattern …

Brief interventions for cannabis use in emerging adults: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and evidence map

J Halladay, J Scherer, J MacKillop, R Woock… - Drug and alcohol …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Purpose This systematic review summarizes and critically appraises the existing literature
on brief interventions (BIs) for cannabis use among emerging adults. Methods Eligible BIs …

Episodic future thinking as a brief alcohol intervention for heavy drinking college students: A pilot feasibility study.

AT Voss, MK Jorgensen, JG Murphy - Experimental and clinical …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Episodic future thinking (EFT), an exercise that involves cognitive simulation of future events,
has demonstrated proximal effects on alcohol demand and delayed reward discounting …

Longitudinal examination of alcohol demand and alcohol‐related reinforcement as predictors of heavy drinking and adverse alcohol consequences in emerging …

BM Bird, K Belisario, M Minhas, SF Acuff, MA Ferro… - …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Behavioral economic theory predicts that high alcohol
demand and high proportionate alcohol‐related reinforcement are important determinants of …

Behavioral economics of substance use: Understanding and reducing harmful use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SF Acuff, JA Tucker, JG Murphy - Experimental and clinical …, 2021‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Behavioral economic research demonstrates that alcohol and drug consumption is (a) an
inverse function of constraints on access to the substance and (b) a direct function of …