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Warren K Bickel, Ph. D.Warren K Bickel, Ph. D.
CAR Director
Professor and Wilbur D. Mills Chair of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention

4301 West Markham Street, Slot 843
Little Rock, Arkansas  72205
Phone: 
Fax:  501.526.7816

wbickel@uams.edu

PhD, Developmental and child psychology, University of Kansas, 1983
MS, University of Kansas
BS, Psychology, State University of New York

Warren Bickel is Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in the College of Medicine and College of Public Health (COPH) and holds the Wilbur D. Mills Chair of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention.  He serves as Director of the UAMS Center for Addiction Research and as Director of COPH’s Center for the Study of Tobacco Addiction at UAMS.  In these roles, he oversees the development of research addressing addiction and tobacco dependence.  Dr. Bickel received his Ph.D. in developmental and child psychology in 1983 from the University of Kansas, completed post‑doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1985, and then joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  In 1987, he relocated to the University of Vermont where he became a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and Interim-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry.  He serves as Principal Investigator on several NIDA grantsHis recent research includes the application of behavioral economics to drug dependence with an emphasis on the discounting of the future and the use of information technologies to deliver science-based prevention and treatment.  Dr. Bickel is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), the Young Psychopharmacologist Award from the Division of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse of the American Psychological Association, and a NIH Merit Award from NIDA.  He served as President of the Division of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse, American Psychological Association and as President of CPDD.  Dr. Bickel was Editor of the journal, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, has co-edited three books, and published over 200 papers.

Research Projects

Improving Combined Buprenorphine Behavioral Treatment

Behavioral Economics of Drug Choice 

Impulsivity in Drug Dependence: Delay Discounting  

Selected Publications
Bickel, W.K., Marsch, L.A., and Carroll, M.E.  (2000).Deconstructing relative reinforcer efficacy and situating the measures of reinforcement with behavioral economics: A theoretical proposal.  Psychopharmacology, 153, 44-5

Bickel, W.K. & Marsch, L.A. (2001). CONCEPTUALIZING ADDICTION Toward a behavioral economic understanding of drug dependence: delay discounting processes, Addiction (2001) 96, 73–86.

Giordano, L.A., Bickel, W.K., Loewenstein, G., Jacobs, E. A., Marsch, L., & Badger, G.J. (2002). Mild opioid deprivation increases the degree that opioid-dependent outpatients discount delayed heroin and money. Psychopharmacology. 163, 174-182.


Baker, F., Johnson, M.W., & Bickel, W.K. (2003).  Delay discounting in current and never-before cigarette smokers:  Similarities and differences across commodity, sign, and magnitude.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology.  112(3), 382-392.

Baker, F., Johnson, M.W., & Bickel, W.K. (2003). Decision-making in state lotteries: Half now or all of it later? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 10(4), 965-70.

Bickel, W.K., & Kirshenbaum, A.P. (2004). Substitutes for tobacco smoking: A behavioral economic analysis of nicotine gum, denicotinized cigarettes, and nicotine-containing cigarettes. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 74, 253-264.

Marsch, L.M., Bickel, W.K., Badger, M.A., & Jacobs, E.A., (2005). Buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence: The relative efficacy of daily, twice and thrice weekly dosing. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 77, 195-204.



Yi, R. & Bickel W. K. (2005). Representation of Odds in terms of Frequencies Reduces Probability Discounting, The Psychological Record, 2005, 55,577-593.

 



 
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