BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS - A NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF DRUG-DEPENDENCE
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS - A NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF DRUG-DEPENDENCE
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DOI：
10.1016/0376-8716(93)90059-y
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发表时间：
1993-09-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
HIGGINS, ST
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作者：
BICKEL, WK;DEGRANDPRE, RJ;HIGGINS, ST
药物滥用和依赖是当今社会面临的最重要问题之一。对各种环境和物种中控制药物摄入的环境和药理学因素的大量研究促进了对药物滥用决定因素的理解。行为经济学是将经济原理应用于个人行为的学科，它可能有潜力将这些经验观察整合到一个新的定量框架中。本文综述了行为经济学在药物依赖研究中的应用。具体来说，我们回顾了(i)行为经济学通过整合变量提供的简约性，（ii）它已经确定的无处不在的行为过程，（iii）行为过程的精确量化及其预测效用，（iv）行为经济学提出的一个新的自变量，以及(v)行为经济学概念对药物开发过程的效用。我们的结论是，行为经济学为药物依赖的研究提供了一个新的概念框架。
Drug abuse and dependence are among the most important problems facing society today. Understanding the determinants of drug abuse has been advanced by a considerable quantity of research on environmental and pharmacological factors that control drug taking in a variety of settings and species. Behavioral economics, which is the application of economic principles to the behavior of the individual, may have the potential to integrate a number of these empirical observations in a novel quantitative framework. In this paper the utility of behavioral economics for the study of drug dependence is reviewed. Specifically, we reviewed (i) the parsimony behavioral economics affords via the integration of variables, (ii) a ubiquitous behavioral process it has identified, (iii) the precise quantification of that behavioral process and its predictive utility, (iv) a novel independent variable suggested by behavioral economics, and (v) the utility of behavioral economic notions for the process of medication development. We conclude that behavioral economics provides a novel conceptual framework that has utility for the study of drug dependence.