A contextualized reinforcer pathology approach to addiction

SF Acuff, J MacKillop, JG Murphy - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Sex differences in opioid and psychostimulant craving and relapse: a critical review

C Nicolas, NE Zlebnik, M Farokhnia, L Leggio… - Pharmacological …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A widely held dogma in the preclinical addiction field is that females are more vulnerable
than males to drug craving and relapse. Here, we first review clinical studies on sex …

Whole person recovery from substance use disorder: a call for research examining a dynamic behavioral ecological model of contexts supportive of recovery

K Witkiewitz, JA Tucker - Addiction Research & Theory, 2025‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background Abstinence has long been considered the defining feature of recovery from
substance use disorder, with a focus on individual level factors associated with abstinence …

The protective effect of social reward on opioid and psychostimulant reward and relapse: behavior, pharmacology, and brain regions

M Venniro, RAM Marino, JJ Chow, D Caprioli… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - jneurosci.org
Until recently, most modern neuroscience research on addiction using animal models did
not incorporate manipulations of social factors. Social factors play a critical role in human …

An operant social self-administration and choice model in mice

LA Ramsey, FM Holloman, SS Lee, M Venniro - Nature Protocols, 2023‏ - nature.com
Little is known about how social factors contribute to neurobiology or neuropsychiatric
disorders. The use of mice allows one to probe the neurobiological bases of social …

Factors modulating the incubation of drug and non-drug craving and their clinical implications

M Venniro, I Reverte, LA Ramsey, KM Papastrat… - Neuroscience & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
It was suggested in 1986 that cue-induced cocaine craving increases progressively during
early abstinence and remains high during extended periods of time. Clinical evidence now …

Defining social reward: A systematic review of human and animal studies.

A Stijovic, M Siegel, AU Kocan, I Bojkovska… - Psychological …, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Social rewards are strong drivers of behavior and fundamental to well-being, yet there is a
lack of consensus regarding what actually defines a reward as “social.” Because a …

Is addiction a brain disease? A plea for agnosticism and heterogeneity

H Pickard - Psychopharmacology, 2022‏ - Springer
Rationale Although increasingly subject to criticism, the brain disease model of addiction
(BDMA) remains dominant within addiction science. Yet few advocates or critics of the …

The relevance of animal models of social isolation and social motivation for understanding schizophrenia: review and future directions

SB Powell, NR Swerdlow - Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Hypotheses Social dysfunction in schizophrenia includes
symptoms of withdrawal and deficits in social skills, social cognition, and social motivation …

Characterization of operant social interaction in rats: effects of access duration, effort, peer familiarity, housing conditions, and choice between social interaction vs …

JJ Chow, NJ Beacher, JM Chabot, M Oke… - …, 2022‏ - Springer
Rationale and objective Social factors play a critical role in drug addiction. We recently
showed that rats will abstain from methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and remifentanil self …