| Literature DB >> 27509043 |
W K Bickel1, S E Snider1, A J Quisenberry1, J S Stein1.
Abstract
Understanding the abuse liability of novel drugs is critical to understanding the risk these new compounds pose to society. Behavioral economics, the integration of psychology and economics, can be used to predict abuse liability of novel substances. Here, we describe the behavioral economic concept of reinforcer pathology and how it may predict the use of novel drugs in existing drug-users and initiation of use in the drug-naive.Mesh:
Year: 2016 PMID: 27509043 DOI: 10.1002/cpt.443
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Pharmacol Ther ISSN: 0009-9236 Impact factor: 6.875