Drug specificity in extended access cocaine and heroin self-administration

Addiction Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 964-976

  Lenoir, Magalie ^c   Guillem, Karyn ^a,b   Koob, George F ^d   Ahmed, Serge H ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES MALADIES NEURODÉGÉNÉRATIVES   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sensitization; cross tolerance; drug of choice; escalation of drug use; polydrug abuse; self medication

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG SPECIFICITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; HEROIN; MALE; NARCOTICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84872839106     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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