TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of social time-out and activity time-out procedures in suppressing ethanol self-administration in alcoholics
AU - Griffiths, Roland
AU - Bigelow, George
AU - Liebson, Ira
N1 - Funding Information:
* Supported by USPHS research grant AA-00179 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Reprints may be obtained from Roland Griffiths, Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, U.S.A.
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PY - 1977
Y1 - 1977
N2 - The experiments compared the potencies of three different contingent time-out procedures for suppressing drinking in alcoholics, and also compared two different experimental methodologies for conducting such studies. In a residential research ward setting fourteen volunteer chronic alcoholics were given daily access to 17 alcoholic drinks provided that a minimum of 40 min elapsed between receiving successive drinks. Each drink contained 1 oz 95-proof ethanol in orange juice. During the baseline condition subjects were free to drink with no behavioral restrictions. However during the time-out conditions, specific behavioral restrictions were imposed on the subjects for the 40-min period following receipt of each drink. The results showed that Social time-out suppressed drinking to 71 per cent of baseline conditions, while Activity time-out and the combined Social and Activity time-out suppressed intake to 36 and 24 per cent, respectively. The study also demonstrated that similar experimental results were obtained when subjects were continuously exposed to the experimental conditions for a number of consecutive days. or intermittently exposed to different conditions in a mixed order over successive days.
AB - The experiments compared the potencies of three different contingent time-out procedures for suppressing drinking in alcoholics, and also compared two different experimental methodologies for conducting such studies. In a residential research ward setting fourteen volunteer chronic alcoholics were given daily access to 17 alcoholic drinks provided that a minimum of 40 min elapsed between receiving successive drinks. Each drink contained 1 oz 95-proof ethanol in orange juice. During the baseline condition subjects were free to drink with no behavioral restrictions. However during the time-out conditions, specific behavioral restrictions were imposed on the subjects for the 40-min period following receipt of each drink. The results showed that Social time-out suppressed drinking to 71 per cent of baseline conditions, while Activity time-out and the combined Social and Activity time-out suppressed intake to 36 and 24 per cent, respectively. The study also demonstrated that similar experimental results were obtained when subjects were continuously exposed to the experimental conditions for a number of consecutive days. or intermittently exposed to different conditions in a mixed order over successive days.
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U2 - 10.1016/0005-7967(77)90064-X
DO - 10.1016/0005-7967(77)90064-X
M3 - Article
C2 - 907606
AN - SCOPUS:0017408787
SN - 0005-7967
VL - 15
SP - 329
EP - 336
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
IS - 4
ER -