Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Background and aims An early meta‐analysis testing the concurrent validity of the Alcohol
Purchase Task (APT), a measure of alcohol's relative reinforcing value, reported mixed …

Episodic future thinking (EFT), an exercise that involves cognitive simulation of future events,
has demonstrated proximal effects on alcohol demand and delayed reward discounting …

Abstract Background and Aims Behavioral economic theory predicts that high alcohol
demand and high proportionate alcohol‐related reinforcement are important determinants of …

While social context has long been considered central to substance use disorder prevention
and treatment and many drug-taking events occur in social settings, experimental research …

Howard Rachlin and his contemporaries pioneered basic behavioral science innovations
that have been usefully applied to advance understanding of human substance use disorder …

Recovery from substance use disorders can be an arduous, lengthy process, yet there exist
few interventions specifically designed to make recovery more reinforcing. This single-group …

Objective: Population drinking trends show clear developmental periodicity, with steep
increases in harmful alcohol use from ages 18 to 22 followed by a gradual decline across …

Background Cannabis is increasingly consumed and increasingly perceived as harmless.
Among those whose use develops into a cannabis use disorder (CUD),< 5% initiate and …

Objective: Translational research on addictive behaviors viewed as molar behavioral
allocation is critically reviewed. This work relates rates of behavior to rates of reinforcement …