| Description |
xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Drug addiction as a psychobiological process / Michael A. Bozarth -- Cocaine and mesoaccumbens dopamine neurotransmission / Frank J. White -- Physical dependence on alcohol and other sedatives / Robert B. Holman -- The comparative effects of nicotine with other substances: a focus on brain dopamine systems / Maureen E.M. Benwell -- Discriminative properties of drugs of abuse / David Clark -- Heroin and cocaine: new technologies, new problems / John Strang -- Desires for cocaine / Peter D.A. Cohen -- Cognitions and desire / Ray Hodgson -- Compulsion craving and conflict / Michael Gossop -- Craving for cigarettes and psychoactive drugs / Robert West and Henry J. Kranzler -- Heuristics or cognitive deficits: how should we characterize smokers' decision making? / Frank P. McKenna |
|
Drugspeak / Ann Dally -- The natural history of heroin addiction / Aubrey J. Yates -- Heroin, cocaine and now nicotine / David M. Warburton -- Psychopharmacological aspects of psychoactive substances / Ian Hindmarch, John S. Kerr and Neil Sherwood -- All substance use pleasures are not the same / David M. Warburton -- Alcohol: a positive enhancer of pleasurable expectancies? / Geoffrey Lowe -- A neuroelectric approach to the assessment of psychoactivity in comparative substance use / Verner J. Knott -- The psychopharmacological and neurochemical consequences of chronic nicotine administration / David J.K. Balfour -- Drug-induced conditioned behaviour: novel motivational effect of morphine in rats / R. Channi Kumar, Elizabeth A. Norris and Ian P. Stolerman |
|
Social cognition and comparative substance use / Richard Eiser -- Life stress and the use of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco: empirical findings, methodological problems and attributions / John B. Davies -- Coping, social support and drinking amongst young married couples / James A. Robertson -- Controversies in substance use research / David M. Warburton |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-377) and index |
| Subject |
Drugs -- Physiological effect.
|
|
Substance abuse -- Research.
|
|
Substance abuse.
|
|
Behavior, Addictive.
|
|
Substance-Related Disorders.
|
| Author |
Warburton, David M.
|
| LC no. |
90004640 |
| ISBN |
3718650452 |
|
3718652331 |
|
