Discounting of delayed rewards in opioid-dependent outpatients: Exponential or hyperbolic discounting functions?

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 284-293

  Madden, Gregory J ^a,b   Bickel, Warren K ^a   Jacobs, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPIATE ADDICTION; REWARD; SELF CONTROL; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; BUPRENORPHINE; FEMALE; HEROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NARCOTICS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032812326     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.7.3.284     Document Type: Article

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