Behavioral choice theory can enhance our understanding of drug dependence and other behavioral disorders

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):579-580 (1996)
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I support the major theme of Heyman's target article that behavioral choice theory can enhance our understanding of drug dependence, but I raise concerns about the critique of the operant model of drug dependence, the underscoring of melioration to the exclusion of other theories of choice, and assertions about the unique effects of drug reinforcement.

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