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

Abstract Hypothetical Purchase Tasks (HPTs) simulate demand for a substance as a
function of escalating price. HPTs are increasingly used to examine relationships between …

Abstract Background and Aims The evolving legal status of cannabis world‐wide
necessitates evidence‐based regulatory policies to minimize risks associated with cannabis …

Background andAims The commodity purchase task is a simulated demand procedure that
is easy and quick to complete (< 5 minutes) as well as adaptable for remote delivery and use …

As research on decision making in addiction accumulates, it is increasingly clear that
decision-making processes are dysfunctional in addiction and that this dysfunction may be …

Abstract beezdemand: Behavioral Economic Easy Demand, a novel package for performing
behavioral economic analyses, is introduced and evaluated. beezdemand extends the …

Few studies have simultaneously evaluated delay discounting and behavioral economic
demand to determine their unique contribution to drug use. A recent study in cannabis users …

Introduction This study sought to estimate the number of illicit retailers and the average price
of cannabis in the largest municipality in each province and territory in Canada by obtaining …

Contemporary approaches for evaluating the demand for reinforcers use either the
Exponential or the Exponentiated model of operant demand, both derived from the …

In the context of cannabis legalization, an important question among clinicians,
policymakers, and the public is whether availability of legal cannabis will significantly reduce …