Whole Person Recovery from Substance Use Disorder: A Call for Research Examining a Dynamic Behavioral Ecological Model of Contexts Supportive of Recovery.

Background: Abstinence has long been considered the defining feature of recovery from substance use disorder, with a focus on individual level factors associated with abstinence rather than identifying individual and socioecological factors that support recovery. This paper proposes greater consideration of dynamic behavioral ecological influences on recovery and offers an expanded contextualized approach to understanding and promoting recovery and predicting dynamic recovery pathways.

Methods: Conceptual and empirical bases are summarized that support moving beyond research, treatment, and policy agendas that focus narrowly on the individual as the fundamental change agent in recovery and that emphasize changes in substance use as the primary outcome metric.

Matching, behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism: Final cause analysis of substance use and health behavior.

Howard Rachlin and his contemporaries pioneered basic behavioral science innovations that have been usefully applied to advance understanding of human substance use disorder and related health behaviors. We briefly summarize the innovations of molar behaviorism (the matching law), behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism. Behavioral economics and teleological behaviorism's focus on final causes are especially illuminating for these applied fields.

Time Horizons, Drug Use, and Risky Sex in Young Women from Poor Urban Areas.

Aims: Emerging adulthood is marked by elevated risk-taking, and young people living in disadvantaged urban areas experience disproportionately more negative outcomes. Using a sample of young African American women living in such communities, this cross-sectional observational study investigated the hypothesis that greater substance use and sexual risk-taking would be associated with present-dominated time perspectives and higher delay discounting.

Methodology: Young women ( = 223, age = 20.

Utility of digital Respondent Driven Sampling to recruit community-dwelling emerging adults for assessment of drinking and related risks.

Introduction: Emerging adulthood often entails heightened risk-taking, including risky drinking, and research is needed to guide intervention development and delivery. This study adapted Respondent Driven Sampling, a peer-driven recruitment method, to a digital platform (d-RDS) and evaluated its utility to recruit community-dwelling emerging adult (EA) risky drinkers, who are under-served and more difficult to reach for assessment and intervention than their college student peers.

Materials And Methods: Community-dwelling EA risky drinkers (N = 357) were recruited using d-RDS (M age = 23.