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| Alfred Marshall talks about addictive behavior in Principles of Economics: |
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| people won't necessarily buy more of a product because it's price falls, and if they grow up using a product when it's price is low, they won't stop buying it just because it's price rises. |
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| Marshall's three fundamental aspects of addiction: |
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1.) physical response (tolerance)
2.) irreversibility (withdrawal)
3.) positive effects of habits (reinforcement) |
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| Economists view an addict as: |
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| myopic, imperfectly rational individual |
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| The United Nations Drug Control Program cites that the most commonly used substance is: |
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| Cannabis followed by amphetamine-type substances. |
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| Non-economists define addiction as: |
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| a behavior over which an individual has impaired control with harmful consequences. |
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| The first group's theories: |
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| "attempt to provide broad insights into the conceptualization of addiction" |
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| The second group's theories: |
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| "explain why particular stimuli have a propensity to becoming a focus for addiction" |
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| The third group's theories: |
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| "why particular individuals are more susceptible to addiction than others." |
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| The fourth group's theories: |
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“the environmental and social conditions
which make addiction more or less
likely” |
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| The fifth group's theories: |
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“focuses on recovery and relapse…some are broad
perspectives, others focus on effects of withdrawal from particular stimuli such as drugs; still others focus on individual factors and others seek to model environmental influences." |
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| an increase in the stock of past consumption results in an increase in current consumption, ceteris paribus. |
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| seek an explanation which identifies the individual's objectives, preferences, and constraints so that a rule can be derived to predict the behavior. |
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