Dynamics of Drug Dependence: Implications of a Conditioning Theory for Research and Treatment

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1973, Pages 611-616

  Wikler, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DRUG TOLERANCE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MORPHINE ADDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REINFORCEMENT; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DRUG TOLERANCE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; OPIUM; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECURRENCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0015621851     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1973.01750350005001     Document Type: Article

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