The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse

by Chaloupka, Frank J.; Grossman, Michael; Bickel, Warren K.; Saffer, Henry

• ISBN13: 9780226100470
• ISBN10: 0226100472
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Conventional wisdom once held that the demand for addictive substances like cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs was unlike that for any other economic good and, therefore, unresponsive to traditional market forces. Recently, however, researchers from two disparate fields, economics and behavioral psychology, have found that increases in the overall price of an addictive substance can significantly reduce both the number of users and the amounts those users consume. Changes in the "full price" of addictive substances--including monetary value, time outlay, effort to obtain, and potential penalties for illegal use--yield marked variations in behavioral outcomes and demand. The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse brings these distinctive fields of study together and presents for the first time an integrated assessment of their data and results. Unique and innovative, this multidisciplinary volume will serve as an important resource in the current debates concerning alcohol and drug use and abuse and the impacts of legalizing illicit drugs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Frank J. Chaloupka
Michael Grossman
Warren K. Bickel
Henry Saffer
I. CIGARETTE SMOKING AND OTHER TOBACCO USE
Tobacco Taxes, Smoking Restrictions, and Tobacco Use	15	(16)
Robert L. Ohsfeldt
Raymond G. Boyle
Eli I. Capilouto
The Behavioral Economics of Smoking	31	(44)
Warren K. Bickel
Gregory J. Madden
Kenneth E. Warner
Neil E. Grunberg
II. ALCOHOL USE AND ABUSE
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats	75	(28)
Jeffrey K. Sarbaum
Solomon W. Polachek
Norman E. Spear
Delayed-Reward Discounting in Alcohol Abuse	103	(30)
Rudy E. Vuchinich
Cathy A. Simpson
Michael E. Hilton
Thomas F. Babor
III. ILLICIT DRUG USE
The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth	133	(24)
Frank J. Chaloupka
Michael Grossman
John A. Tauras
Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse	157	(30)
Stephen T. Higgins
Jonathan P. Caulkins
David Shurtleff
IV. POLYDRUG USE
Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs	187	(26)
Henry Saffer
Frank J. Chaloupka
A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Polydrug Abuse in Heroin Addicts	213	(38)
Nancy M. Petry
Warren K. Bickel
A. Thomas McLellan
Mark A. R. Kleiman
V. SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND EMPLOYMENT
Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?	251	(28)
Donald S. Kenkel
Ping Wang
Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention: A Behavioral Economic Analysis	279	(32)
Kenneth Silverman
Elias Robles
John Mullahy
Sharon M. Hall
VI. SUBSTANCE USE AND INCOME
Income Alters the Relative Reinforcing Effects of Drug and Nondrug Reinforcers	311	(16)
Marilyn E. Carroll
Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?	327
Robert Kaestner
Christopher J. Ruhm
Steven R. Hursh