title: Does drug mis-instrumentalization lead to drug abuse?
abstract: Understanding the perceived benefits of using drugs to achieve specific mental states will provide novel insights into the reasons individuals seek to use drugs. However, the precision of attempts to instrumentalize drugs is unclear both across drugs and individuals. Moreover, mis-instrumentalization, defined as discrepancies between such endpoints, may have relevance to understanding the relation among use, abuse, and addiction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences & the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660. kippin@psych.ucsb.edu http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/
authors.forename: Tod E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Kippin
mesh_terms: D055030:Drug Users / Q000523:psychology*; D058999:Drug-Seeking Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000187:drug effects*; D012651:Self Medication / Q000523:psychology*