Commentary on Strickland et al . (2020): Do commodity purchase tasks provide clinically meaningful indices of motivation to consume drugs?

Drug purchase tasks have the potential to measure clinically meaningful between- and intra-individual differences in strength of motivation to use drugs. These differences may guide decisions about degree of risk and need for treatment. Alcohol and drug purchase tasks are brief self-report measures that are modeled after laboratory drug self-administration paradigms used to quantify the strength of drugs as reinforcers, also known as drug...