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Choice, behavioral economics, and addiction
- Title
- Choice, behavioral economics, and addiction / edited by Rudy E. Vuchinich, Nick Heather.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Pergamon, c2003.
- Description
- xix, 438 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Other contributors
- Vuchinich, Rudy E. (Rudolph Eugene), 1949- Heather, Nick.
- Variant title
- Choice, behavioural economics, and addiction
- Notes
- Proceedings of a conference entitled, "Choice, Behavioral Economics, and Addiction: Theory, Evidence, and Applications," held at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, on March 15-17, 2002. Main sponsor of the conference: National Insitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in the USA, with contributions from the U.K. Society for the Study of Addiction, Elsevier Science Limited, the University of Alabama's Lister Hill Center for Health Policy and its Center for Health Promotion. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject headings
- Substance abuse--Economic aspects--Congresses. Compulsive behavior--Social aspects--Congresses. Choice (Psychology)--Congresses. Motivation (Psychology)--Congresses. Addicts--Psychology--Congresses. Substance abuse--Treatment--Government policy--Congresses.
- ISBN
- 0080440568 (alk. paper)