Risk-sensitive foraging theory elucidates risky choices made by heroin addicts

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 855-861

  Bickel, Warren K ^a   Giordano, Louis A ^a   Badger, Gary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Evolutionary approaches to drug dependence; Opioid dependence; Risk sensitive foraging; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATIETY; STARVATION;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARCOTICS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 3042697271     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00733.x     Document Type: Article

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