Hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorders

J MacKillop, R Agabio, SW Feldstein Ewing… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous
drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is associated with acute and …

Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory

L Hogarth - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020 - nature.com
Drug addiction may be a goal-directed choice driven by excessive drug value in negative
affective states, a habit driven by strong stimulus− response associations, or a compulsion …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders

J Marsden, S Darke, W Hall, M Hickman… - Addiction (Abingdon …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures required to address it are cutting a swathe
through people's lives and the global economy. People with addictive disorders are …

Rejecting impulsivity as a psychological construct: A theoretical, empirical, and sociocultural argument.

JC Strickland, MW Johnson - Psychological review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
We demonstrate through theoretical, empirical, and sociocultural evidence that the concept
of impulsivity fails the basic requirements of a psychological construct and should be …

Steep delay discounting and addictive behavior: A meta‐analysis of continuous associations

M Amlung, L Vedelago, J Acker, I Balodis… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To synthesize continuous associations between delayed reward discounting (DRD)
and both addiction severity and quantity–frequency (QF); to examine moderators of these …

A contextualized reinforcer pathology approach to addiction

SF Acuff, J MacKillop, JG Murphy - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Mechanisms of behavior change in substance use disorder with and without formal treatment

K Witkiewitz, RA Pfund, JA Tucker - Annual Review of Clinical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a narrative review of studies that examined mechanisms of behavior
change in substance use disorder. Several mechanisms have some support, including self …

The latent structure of impulsivity: impulsive choice, impulsive action, and impulsive personality traits

J MacKillop, J Weafer, JC Gray, A Oshri, A Palmer… - …, 2016 - Springer
Rationale Impulsivity has been strongly linked to addictive behaviors, but can be
operationalized in a number of ways that vary considerably in overlap, suggesting …

Depression, environmental reward, coping motives and alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic

MD McPhee, MT Keough, S Rundle, LM Heath… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Increases in the incidence of psychological distress and alcohol use during the
COVID-19 pandemic have been predicted. Behavioral theories of depression and alcohol …

A modified exponential behavioral economic demand model to better describe consumption data.

MN Koffarnus, CT Franck, JS Stein… - Experimental and …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Behavioral economic demand analyses that quantify the relationship between the
consumption of a commodity and its price have proven useful in studying the reinforcing …