ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2016
Interrelationships between marijuana demand and discounting of delayed rewards: Convergence in behavioral economic methods.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Acute Stress Effect on Delay Discounting and Cannabis Demand Among Individuals Endorsing High-Frequency Cannabis Use.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Pathways From Maltreatment to Substance Use Through Delay Discounting During Adolescence and Into Young Adulthood.JAACAP open · 2024Article
- Ecological momentary assessment of delay discounting, reward valuation, and craving in very light cigarette users.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Designing and Validating a Novel Method for Assessing Delay Discounting Associated With Health Behaviors: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain.Learning & behavior · 2023Review
- Reliability and validity of behavioral-economic measures: A review and synthesis of discounting and demand.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Review
- Reliability of an adaptive marijuana purchase task.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Can I see some ID? Examining validity of the marijuana purchase task among late adolescent cannabis users.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Notes on demand: Conceptual and empirical benefits of applying Rachlin's discounting equation to demand data.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Age differences in the behavioural economics of cannabis use: Do adolescents and adults differ on demand for cannabis and discounting of future reward?Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Additive roles of tobacco and cannabis co-use in relation to delay discounting in a sample of heavy drinkers.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Behavioral economic interactions between cannabis and alcohol purchasing: Associations with disordered use.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Cannabis Use Disorder: A Behavioral Economic Perspective.Current addiction reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDistinct behavioral economic domains, including high perceived drug value (demand) and delay discounting (DD), have been implicated in the initiation of drug use and the progression to dependence. However, it is unclear whether frequent marijuana users conform to a "reinforcer pathology" addiction model wherein marijuana demand and DD jointly increase risk for problematic marijuana use and cannabis dependence (CD).
methodsParticipants (n=88, 34% female, 14% cannabis dependent) completed a marijuana purchase task at baseline. A delay discounting task was completed following placebo marijuana cigarette (0% THC) administration during a separate experimental session.
resultsMarijuana demand and DD were quantified using area under the curve (AUC). In multiple regression models, demand uniquely predicted frequency of marijuana use while DD did not. In contrast, DD uniquely predicted CD symptom count while demand did not. There were no significant interactions between demand and DD in either model.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that frequent marijuana users exhibit key constituents of the reinforcer pathology model: high marijuana demand and steep discounting of delayed rewards. However, demand and DD appear to be independent rather than synergistic risk factors for elevated marijuana use and risk for progression to CD. Findings also provide support for using AUC as a singular marijuana demand metric, particularly when also examining other behavioral economic constructs that apply similar statistical approaches, such as DD, to support analytic methodological convergence.
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