Laboratory behavioral studies of vulnerability to drug abuse
By: editors, Cora Lee Wetherington, John L. Falk.
Contributors: Wetherington, Cora Lee.; Falk, John L.; National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Series: NIDA research monograph ;; 169; NIH publication ;; no. 98-4122
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, Division of Basic Research
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Rockville, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Drug abuse -- Susceptibility.; Drug abuse -- Animal models.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Based on the papers from a technical review ... held on August 2-3, 1994"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Toward an account of individual differences in drug abuse; title: Acquisition and reacquisition (relapse) of drug abuse: modulation by alternative reinforcers; title: The influence of behavioral and pharmacological history on the reinforcing effects of cocaine in rhesus monkeys; title: Stimulant preexposure sensitizes rats and humans to the rewarding effects of cocaine; title: Stress, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and vulnerability to drug abuse; title: Behavioral and biological factors associated with individual vulnerability to psychostimulant abuse; title: Addictive behavior with and without pharmacologic action: critical role of stimulus control; title: Taste and diet preferences as predictors of drug self-administration; title: Individual differences in acute effects of drugs in humans: their relevance to risk for abuse; title: Substance abuse vulnerability in offspring of alcohol and drug abusers; title: Integrating genetic and behavioral models in the study of substance abuse mechanisms; title: Disaggregating the liability for drug abuse.