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DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
卷 113, 期 2-3, 页码 207-214出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.08.004
关键词
Tobacco; Smoking; Adolescents; Behavioral economics; Reinforcement; Demand curve; Nicotine dependence; Motivation
资金
- National Institute on Drug Abuse [1R01DA16737]
- National Institutes of Health [R21AA016304, K23AA016936, R01DA14002]
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
High or inelastic demand for drugs is central to many laboratory and theoretical models of drug abuse, but it has not been widely measured with human substance abusers. The authors used a simulated cigarette purchase task to generate a demand curve measure of nicotine reinforcement in a sample of 138 adolescent smokers. Participants reported the number of cigarettes they would purchase and smoke in a hypothetical day across a range of prices, and their responses were well-described by a regression equation that has been used to construct demand curves in drug self-administration studies. Several demand curve measures were generated, including breakpoint, intensity, elasticity. P(max), and O(max). Although simulated cigarette smoking was price sensitive, smoking levels were high (8+ cigarettes/day) at prices up to 50(sic) per cigarette, and the majority of the sample reported that they would purchase at least 1 cigarette at prices as high as $2.50 per cigarette. Higher scores on the demand indices O(max), (maximum cigarette purchase expenditure), intensity (reported smoking level when cigarettes were free), and breakpoint (the first price to completely suppress consumption), and lower elasticity (sensitivity of cigarette consumption to increases in cost), were associated with greater levels of naturalistic smoking and nicotine dependence. Greater demand intensity was associated with lower motivation to change smoking. These results provide initial support for the validity of a self-report cigarette purchase task as a measure of economic demand for nicotine with adolescent smokers. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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