Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse

Stephen T. Higgins

No 6487, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper focuses on potential contributions of behavioral economics to reducing cocaine abuse. More specifically, this paper underscores the fundamental role of reinforcement in the genesis and maintenance of cocaine use and explores how reinforcement and consumer-demand theory might be translated into effective strategies for reducing cocaine use. A broad range of relevant research findings are discussed, including preclinical studies conducted with laboratory animals, laboratory and treatment-outcome studies conducted with cocaine abusers, and large epidemiological studies conducted with national samples of the U.S. population.

Date: 1998-03
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Published as The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse. Chaloupka, Frank J., Michael Grossman, Warren K. Bickel, and Henry Saffer, eds., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 157-174.
Published as Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse , Stephen T. Higgins. in The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: An Integration of Econometric and Behavioral Economic Research , Chaloupka, Grossman, Bickel, and Saffer. 1999

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