Critical features of human addiction are increasingly being incorporated into complementary
animal models, including escalation of drug intake, punished drug seeking and taking …

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

Relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of addiction. During the last
several decades, this clinical scenario has been studied at the preclinical level using classic …

The field of behavioral economics has made important inroads into the understanding of
substance use disorders through the concept of reinforcer pathology. Reinforcer pathology …

Research on the neural substrates of drug reward, withdrawal and relapse has yet to be
translated into significant advances in the treatment of addiction. One potential reason is that …

This report describes a systematic literature review of voucher and related monetary-based
contingency management (CM) interventions for substance use disorders (SUDs) over 5.2 …

The effects of drug dependence on social systems has helped shape the generally held
view that drug dependence is primarily a social problem, not a health problem. In turn …

Methamphetamine use continues to be an important public health problem. Contingency
management is among the most effective interventions for reducing methamphetamine use …

In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about
addiction—that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control—is wrong. At the …

Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A
Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of …