TY  - JOUR
AU  - Higgins, Stephen T
TI  - Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6487
PY  - 1998
Y2  - March 1998
DO  - 10.3386/w6487
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6487
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6487.pdf
M1  - published as Stephen T. Higgins. "Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse," in Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Warren K. Bickel and Henry Saffer, editors, "The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: An Integration of Econometric and Behavioral Economic Research" University of Chicago Press (1999)

AB  - 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.
ER  -