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Issues surrounding the assessment of the genetic determinants of drugs as reinforcing stimuli.
Journal of addictive diseases - 1 Jan 1991
Carney J M, Cheng M S, Wu C, Seale T W
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A wide variety of drugs used in medicine and on a non-prescription basis have abuse liability. However, not all psychoactive drugs have demonstrable reinforcing properties either in animal models or in humans. In order to predict the abuse liability of a compound or to understand determinants of the abuse liability, several animal testing procedures have been developed. These procedures include tests for physical...
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