Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2019

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper is the forty-second consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …

Animal models of the behavioral symptoms of substance use disorders

LJMJ Vanderschuren… - Cold Spring …, 2021 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
To more effectively manage substance use disorders, it is imperative to understand the
neural, genetic, and psychological underpinnings of addictive behavior. To contribute to this …

Medications development for treatment of opioid use disorder

EA Townsend, SS Negus… - Cold Spring …, 2021 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
This review describes methods for preclinical evaluation of candidate medications to treat
opioid use disorder (OUD). The review is founded on the propositions that (1) drug self …

Cocaine and heroin interact differently with nondrug reinforcers in a choice situation.

MM Beasley, S Amantini, T Gunawan… - Experimental and …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study used a rat choice model to test how cocaine or heroin economically
interacted with two different nondrug reinforcers along the substitute-to-complement …

Cocaine falls into oblivion during volitional initiation of choice trials

Y Vandaele, E Augier, C Vouillac‐Mendoza… - Addiction …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
When facing a choice, most animals quit drugs in favour of a variety of nondrug alternatives.
We recently found, rather unexpectedly, that choice of the nondrug alternative is in fact …

Heroin choice depends on income level and economy type

T Gunawan, Y Hachiga, CS Tripoli, A Silberberg… - …, 2020 - Springer
Rationale In a previous study, investigating choice between heroin and a non-drug
alternative in animals and reductions in income (ie, choices/day) caused the percentage of …

Opening the cocaine economy by providing within-session access to a cheaper source of cocaine makes demand for it more elastic

DN Kearns, A Silberberg - Behavioural pharmacology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Previous studies found that opening the cocaine economy by providing postsession access
to cocaine had no effect on animals' demand for cocaine, whereas postsession access to …