Animal models of drug addiction

About this book

Animal Models of Drug Addiction is a comprehensive guide to the use of animal models in understanding the many facets of drug and alcohol abuse - problems that are now worldwide health concerns. In this latest volume of Humana's authoritative and practical Neuromethods series, expert investigators have contributed state-of-the-art chapters on the use of animal models for research on substance abuse. Articles feature critical information, techniques, and experimental protocols including: alcohol consumption, genetic approaches, methodological and experimental issues of alcohol tolerance, barbiturate addiction, benzodiazepine tolerance and dependence, self-administration of psychomotor stimulants and nicotine, taste preference conditioning model for opiate withdrawal dysphoria, assessment of hallucinogens, and perinatal caffeine exposure.