MATCHING AND MELIORATION AS ACCOUNTS OF REINFORCEMENT AND DRUG-ADDICTION

Heyman's view that addiction can be viewed as a natural outcome predic table my melioration and the matching law is provocative. Remaining to be explained more fully, however, are exactly how his view is an impr ovement on other reinforcement-based accounts. Included in these elabo rations should be an account of how different ''bookkeeping schemes'' are developed and controlled and what new approaches to treatment and prevention of drug addiction are indicated.