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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2021 Jan 12;202:173112. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2021.173112

Table 2:

Comparison of behavioral economic indices of demand intensity (Q0) and elasticity (α) for cocaine, MDPV, αPVP, MCAT, MDMA, and methylone. T-test comparing the peak and peak + 1/2 log demand curves.

Drug α Q0 r2 T Test
Cocaine:
 Peak 1.2 × 10−5 68 0.98
 + ½-log 1.7 × 10−5 25 0.97 T3=1.0, p=0.38
 Grouped 1.3 × 10−5 40 0.97
MDPV:
 Peak 3.0 × 10−5 52 0.98
 + ½-log 1.7 × 10−5 18 0.93 T3=2.4, p=0.093
 Grouped 1.8 × 10−5 25 0.94
αPVP:
 Peak 3.6 × 10−5 57 0.99
 + ½-log 6.1 × 10−5 47 0.96 T3=1.5, p=0.11
 Grouped 4.2 × 10−5 52 0.98
MCAT
 Peak 1.9 × 10−5 75 0.91
 + ½-log 2.5 × 10−5 21 0.82 T3=1.4, p=0.12
 Grouped 1.7 × 10−5 80 0.89
MDMA
 Peak 4.7 × 10−5 20 0.86
 + ½-log 4.9 × 10−5 16 0.93 T3=0.10, p=0.46
 Grouped 4.3 × 10−5 23 1.0
Methylone
 Peak 3.5 × 10−5 57 0.99
 + ½-log 1.9 × 10−5 18 0.83 T3=0.76, p=0.50
 Grouped 1.8 × 10−5 23 0.88