ArticlePsychopharmacology2019
Evaluating non-medical prescription opioid demand using commodity purchase tasks: test-retest reliability and incremental validity.
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- Opioid Risk Tool, in-hospital opioid exposure, and opioid demand predict pain outcomes following traumatic injury.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Cannabis demand and use among veterans: A prospective examination.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Are the attention checks embedded in delay discounting tasks a valid marker for data quality?Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Reliability and validity of behavioral-economic measures: A review and synthesis of discounting and demand.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Review
- Behavioral economic relationship between cannabis flower and concentrates: Evidence from simulated purchase tasks.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Behavioral economic relationship between cannabis and cigarettes: Evidence from hypothetical purchase tasks.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Article
- Benzodiazepine Use and Dependence in Relation to Chronic Pain Intensity and Pain Catastrophizing.The journal of pain · 2023Article
- Matching, behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism: Final cause analysis of substance use and health behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
- Using crowdsourcing to study the differential effects of cross-drug withdrawal for cigarettes and opioids in a behavioral economic demand framework.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
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Abstract
rationaleNon-medical prescription opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD) present a significant public health concern. Identifying behavioral mechanisms underlying OUD will assist in developing improved prevention and intervention approaches. Behavioral economic demand has been extensively evaluated as a measure of reinforcer valuation for alcohol and cigarettes, whereas prescription opioids have received comparatively little attention.
objectivesUtilize a purchase task procedure to measure the incremental validity and test-retest reliability of opioid demand.
methodsIndividuals reporting past year non-medical prescription opioid use were recruited using the crowdsourcing platform Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk). Participants completed an opioid purchase task as well as measures of cannabis demand, delay discounting, and self-reported pain. A 1-month follow-up was used to evaluate test-retest reliability.
resultsMore intense and inelastic opioid demand was associated with OUD and more intense cannabis demand was associated with cannabis use disorder. Multivariable models indicated that higher opioid intensity and steeper opioid delay discounting rates each significantly and uniquely predicted OUD. Increased opioid demand intensity, but not elasticity, was associated with higher self-reported pain, and no relationship was observed with perceived pain relief from opioids. Opioid demand showed acceptable-to-good test-retest reliability (e.g., intensity r
conclusionsOpioid demand was incrementally valid and test-retest reliable as measured by purchase tasks. These findings support behavioral economic demand as a clinically useful measure of drug valuation that is sensitive to individual difference variables.
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