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Cocaine abuse : behavior, pharmacology, and clinical applications /

Cocaine abuse remains a major public health problem and contributes to many of our most disturbing social problems, including the spread of infectious disease, crime, violence, and neonatal drug exposure. Cocaine abuse results from a complex interplay of behavioral, pharmacological, and neurobiologi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Higgins, Stephen T., Katz, Jonathan L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, �1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Basic pharmacological mechanisms of cocaine
  • Neuroanatomical bases of the reinforcing stimulus effects of cocaine
  • Behavioral pharmacology of cocaine and the determinants of abuse liability
  • Behavioral-environmental determinants of the reinforcing functions of cocaine
  • Tolerance and sensitization to cocaine: an integrated view
  • Preclinical evaluation of pharmacotherapies for cocaine abuse
  • Prenatal exposure to cocaine
  • Cocaine self-administration research: implications for rational pharmacotherapy
  • Evaluation of potential pharmacotherapies: response to cocaine challenge in the human laboratory
  • Controlled laboratory studies on the effects of cocaine in combination with other commonly abused drugs in humans
  • Cocaine effects on brain function
  • Contribution of genetic factors in cocaine and other drug abuse
  • Vulnerability to cocaine abuse
  • Treating cocaine abuse: what does research tell us?
  • Treatment of cocaine abuse in methadone maintenance patients
  • Relapse to cocaine use
  • Cocaine legalization: designing the experiments.