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Relative Expected Value of Drugs Versus Competing Rewards Underpins Vulnerability to and Recovery from Addiction

About the Course:

This course address numerous theories and models in an attempt to create a unified theory of addiction based on concurrent drug choice tasks and relative value using economic Decision Theory. It examines: compulsion theory, habit theory, negative reinforcement theory, dual process theory, relative value theory, cue reactivity theory of dependence, human concurrent choice tasks, dependency severity, mindfulness, motivation approaches, contingency management, and the impact of negative mood on addiction.

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This course is based on the article, Relative expected value of drugs versus competing rewards underpins vulnerability to and recovery from addiction created by Lee Hogarth and Matt Field, D. Phil. in 2020.

Publication Date:

2020 Sep 2020

Course Material Authors

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Lee Hogarth

Dr. Hogarth is an experimental psychologist studying learning mechanisms underpinning individual vulnerability to addictive behaviour. His work has revealed that vulnerability to dependence in humans is not conferred by attentional bias, cue-reactivity or propensity to habit or compulsion, but by excessive valuation of the drug relative to alternative competing rewards driving up goal-directed drug choice, plus sensitivity to negative affect acting as a motivational state to further augment drug valuation and goal-directed drug choice. Hogarth advocates socioeconomic population level interventions for drug users to facilitate access to competing alternative sources of reward. He has published multiple articles in peer reviewed journals.

Matt Field, D. Phil.

Dr. Field is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. He conducts research into the psychological mechanisms that underlie alcohol problems and other addictions, and is particularly interested in the roles of decision-making and impulse control in addiction, recovery, and behaviour change more broadly. He has published multiple articles in peer reviewed journals.

Course Creator

L.A. Rankin

L.A. Rankin is a social worker with experience in many different settings with a variety of clients. She has worked with dementia and Alzheimers patients, dual diagnosis MH/MR, in a battered women’s shelter, and a rape crisis center. She also has 11 years of experience as a child protective social worker, where she earned certificates in domestic abuse/family violence and substance abuse.

Recommended For:

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Course Objectives:

  1. Acknowledge the need for a working and unifying theory that explains the addiction process, addiction severity, and the fact that many people recover from addiction without treatment.

  2. Identify various theories and study outcomes.

  3. Summarize the role of negative affect in addiction, and the various approaches which can be used for treatment,

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Course Number 102999
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