Heroin and cocaine abusers have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than alcoholics or non-drug-using controls

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 461-471

  Kirby, Kris N ^a   Petry, Nancy M ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Discount rates; Hyperbolic discounting; Impulsivity; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1942438166     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2003.00669.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Ainslie, G. (1975) Specious reward: a behavioral theory of impulsiveness and impulse control. Psychological Bulletin, 82, 463-496.
2. Anghelescu, I., Germeyer, S., Mueller, M. J., Klawe, C., Singer, P., Dahmen, N., Wetzel, H., Himmerich, H. & Szegedi, A. (2001) No association between the dopamine D-sub-2 receptor TaqI A1 allele and earlier age of onset of alcohol dependence according to different specified criteria. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25, 805-809.
3. Ball, J. C. & Ross, A. (1991) The Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment. New York: Springer-Verlag.
4. Barratt, E. S. (1985) Impulsiveness Defined Within a Systems Model of Personality. In: Spielberger, C. D. & Butcher, J. N., eds. Advances in Personality Assessment, vol. 5, pp. 113-132. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
5. Bickel, W. K., Odum, A. L. & Madden, G. J. (1999) Impulsivity and cigarette smoking: delay discounting in current, never, and ex-smokers. Psychopharmacology, 146, 447-454.
6. Bretteville-Jensen, A. L. (1999) Addiction and discounting. Journal of Health Economics, 18, 393-407.
7. Dawes, M. A., Tarter, R. E. & Kirisci, L. (1997) Behavioral self-regulation: correlates and 2 year follow-ups for boys at risk for substance abuse. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 45, 165-176.
8. Eysenck, S. B., Pearson, P. R., Easting, G. & Allsopp, J. F. (1985) Age norms for impulsiveness, venturesomeness and empathy in adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 6, 613-619.
9. Higgins, S. T., Budney, A. J., Bickel, W. K., Foerg, F. E., Donham, R. & Badger, G. J. (1994) Incentives improve outcome in outpatient behavioral treatment of cocaine dependence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 51, 568-576.
10. Howell, D. C. & McConaughy, S. H. (1982) Nonorthogonal analysis of variance: putting the question before the answer. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 42, 9-24.
11. Kellam, S. G. & Anthony, J. C. (1998) Targeting early antecedents to prevent tobacco smoking: findings from an epidemiologically based randomized field trial. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 1490-1495.
12. Kirby, K. N. (1997) Bidding on the future: evidence against normative discounting of delayed rewards. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 54-70.
13. Kirby, K. N., Godoy, R., Reyes-García, V., Byron, E., Apaza, L., Leonard, W., Pérez, E., Vadez, V. & Wilkie, D. (2002) Correlates of delay-discount rates: evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest. Journal of Economic Psychology, 23, 291-316.
14. Kirby, K. N., Petry, N. M. & Bickel, W. K. (1999) Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 78-87.
15. Kosten, T. R., Rounsaville, B. J. & Kleber, H. D. (1983) Concurrent validity of the Addiction Severity Index. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 171, 606-610.
16. Madden, G. J., Bickel, W. K. & Jacobs, E. A. (1999) Discounting of delayed rewards in oploid-dependent outpatients: exponential or hyperbolic discounting functions? Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7, 284-293.
17. Madden, G. J., Petry, N. M., Badger, G. J. & Bickel, W. K. (1997) Impulsive and self-control choices in opiold-dependent patients and non-drug-using control participants: drug and monetary rewards. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 5, 256-262.
18. Mazur, J. E. (1987) An Adjusting Procedure for Studying Delayed Reinforcement. In: Commons, M. L., Mazur, J. E., Nevin, J. A. & Rachlin, H., eds. Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, vol. 5, pp. 55-73. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
19. McLellan, A. T., Luborsky, L., Cacciola, J., Griffith, J., Evans, F., Barr, H. L. & O'Brien, C. P. (1985) New data from the Addiction Severity Index: reliability and validity in three centers. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 173, 412-423.
20. Odum, A. L., Madden, G. J., Badger, G. J. & Bickel, W. K. (2000) Needle sharing in opioid-dependent outpatients: psychological processes underlying risk. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 60, 259-266.
21. Petry, N. M. (2000) A comprehensive guide to the application of contingency management procedures in clinical settings. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 58, 9-25.
22. Petry, N. M. (2001a) Delay discounting of money and alcohol in actively using alcoholics, currently abstinent alcoholics, and controls. Psychopharmacology, 154, 243-250.
23. Petry, N. M. (2001b) Pathological gamblers, with and without substance abuse disorders, discount delayed rewards at high rates. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 482-487.
24. Petry, N. M. & Bickel, W. K. (1998) Polydrug abuse in heroin addicts: a behavioral economic analysis. Addiction, 93, 321-335.
25. Petry, N. M. & Casarella, T. (1999) Excessive discounting of delayed rewards in substance abusers with gambling problems. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 56, 25-32.
26. Rachlin, H. (2000) The Science of Self-Control. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Rosenthal, R. & Rosnow, R. (1991) Essentials of behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis, 2nd edn. New York: McGraw-Hill.
28. Vuchinich, R. E. & Simpson, C. A. (1998) Hyperbolic temporal discounting in social drinkers and problem drinkers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6, 292-305.
29. Zachary, R. A. (1991). Shipley Institute of Living Scale: revised manual. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
30. Zinkernagel, C., Naef, M. R., Bucher, H. C., Ladewig, D., Gyr, N. & Battegay, M. (2001) Onset and pattern of substance use in intravenous drug users of opiate maintenance program. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 64, 105-109.
31. Zuckerman, M. (1979) Sensation Seeking: Beyond the Optimal Level of Arousal. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.