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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
17
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1991-1-17
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| pubmed:abstractText |
Response requirement and dose of drug per administration are two separate factors that have been demonstrated to control drug self-administration. Recent developments in behavioral economics have shown that these two factors are in fact functionally equivalent for nondrug reinforcers, as indicated by a unit-price analysis. In this review, the unit-price notion was tested for drugs as reinforcers via a re-analysis of ten drug self-administration studies. The results of the re-analysis indicated that response requirement and reinforcer magnitude, the constituents of unit price, have functionally equivalent effects on drug consumption and that a positively decelerating demand curve is produced as unit price increases. This suggests that the behavioral-economic notion of unit price is a more parsimonious explanation of the effects of response requirement and dose in drug self-administration studies, in that it integrates and describes what was previously considered to be two distinct operations.
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| pubmed:grant | |
| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:chemical | |
| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:issn |
0024-3205
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
47
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
1501-10
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2007-11-14
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| pubmed:meshHeading | |
| pubmed:year |
1990
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Behavioral economics of drug self-administration. I. Functional equivalence of response requirement and drug dose.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington 05401.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.,
Review
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