ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2020
Pilot trial investigating a brief behavioral economic intervention as an adjunctive treatment for alcohol use disorder.
Article in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05443750 (Digital Motivational Behavioral Economic Intervention to Reduce Risky Drinking Among Community-Dwelling Emerging Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Digital Motivational Behavioral Economic Intervention to Reduce Risky Drinking Among Community-Dwelling Emerging Adults
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Identifying brief intervention factors to improve cannabis related outcomes in adolescents and young adults: A systematic review of sample characteristics and intervention components.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Pooled it
- Imagining the future can shape the present: A systematic review of the impact of episodic future thinking on substance use outcomes.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Pooled it
- Concurrent validity of the Alcohol Purchase Task for measuring the reinforcing efficacy of alcohol: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Pooled it
- A randomized pilot trial of two forms of behavioral economics intervention to improve engagement in buprenorphine-naloxone treatment among patients with opioid use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Trial
- A randomized feasibility study of a positive psychology journaling intervention to support recovery from substance-use disorders.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Trial
- A randomized pilot trial of a mobile delivered brief motivational interviewing and behavioral economic alcohol intervention for emerging adults.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Trial
- Group behavioral activation with and without a smartphone app in intensive outpatient treatment for substance use disorder: A three-arm randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Trial
- A behavioral economics substance-free activity session (SFAS) approach to reducing substance use: Narrative review and intervention manual.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Comparing behavioral economic and internalizing symptom predictors of drinking trajectories over 3 years during emerging adulthood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- "Guide them to have a future orientation": qualitative findings in developing a reinforcement-based intervention to address alcohol use with American Indian emerging adults.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Reward deprivation is associated with elevated alcohol demand in emerging adults.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile behavioral economic health intervention to reduce alcohol use in adults in rural areas.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- Applying behavioral economics to understand changes in alcohol outcomes during the transition to adulthood: Longitudinal relations and differences by sex and race.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
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- Cannabis demand and use among veterans: A prospective examination.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Role of social context in addiction etiology and recovery.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Review
- Next-day responsibilities attenuate demand for alcohol among a crowdsourced sample of community adults.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Contextual decision-making and alcohol use disorder criteria: Delayed reward, delayed loss, and probabilistic reward discounting.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Matching, behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism: Final cause analysis of substance use and health behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveBehavioral economic research suggests that increasing the salience of a delayed reward may improve capacity for delaying gratification and increase behavior allocated toward obtaining larger, delayed substance-free reward rather than smaller, more immediate reward such as alcohol use. This study aimed to improve the efficacy of outpatient alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment by adding elements that target behavioral economic mechanisms of change.
methodForty-one (N = 41) adults in outpatient AUD treatment were recruited and 37 participants were retained at follow-up. Following baseline assessment, participants received either the Substance Free Activity Session (SFAS), a single-session behavioral economic-informed intervention focused on increasing future orientation and engagement in values-based substance-free activities or a health education control intervention. Participants in both conditions received weekly prompts (via text or email) relevant to their respective intervention for four weeks. Participants (68.3% male; 70.7% Caucasian, M age = 38.24, SD = 12.69) reported an average of 3.95 (SD = 4.72) binge drinking episodes (4/5 drinks per occasion for a woman/man) and 5.05 (SD = 5.32) drinks per drinking day 30-days prior to treatment entry.
resultsThe study provided initial support for the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the SFAS within a treatment setting. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the SFAS (M = 9.08 (SD = 0.94), on a scale of 1-10). At 3-month follow-up, the SFAS was associated with reductions in the proportion of activity participation and enjoyment (reinforcement) related to substance-use relative to substance-free activities and in alcohol demand compared to control.
conclusionThese preliminary results provide initial support for targeting behavioral economic mechanisms of change in an outpatient AUD treatment with a single-session intervention plus remote delivery of booster prompts.
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