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Control versus causation of addiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Kent C. Berridge
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109. berridge@umich.edu or ter@umich.edu
Terry E. Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109. berridge@umich.edu or ter@umich.edu

Abstract

Heyman explains useful ways to bring addictive drug use under environmental control. We doubt that relapse is explained by drug features such as immediate reinforcement, clouding of judgment, and so forth. Relapse may require explanation in terms of enduring sensitization of incentive neural substrates, but even if its causal assumptions are wrong, Heyman's model makes useful predictions for behavioral control.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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