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AMPHETAMINE
A STIMULANT DRUG WHOSE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF COCAINE
BEFORE-AND-AFTER DESIGN
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN USED TO DEMONSTRATE CONTINGENT DRUG TOLERANCE; EXPERIMENTAL GROUP RECEIVES THE DRUG BEFORE EACH OF A SERIES OF BEHAVIORAL TESTS AND THE CONTROL RECEIVES THE DRUG AFTER EACH TEST
BEURGER'S DISEASE
CONDITION IN WHICH BLOOD VESSELS, ESPECIALLY THOSE SUPPLYING LEGS, ARE CONSTRICTED WHENEVER NICOTINE ENTERS THE BLOODSTREAM, THE ULTIMATE RESULT BEING GANGRENE AND AMPUTATION
CROSS TOLERANCE
TOLERANCE TO THE EFFETS OF ONE DRUG THAT DEVELOPS AS THE RESULT OF EXPOSURE TO ANOTHER DRUG THAT ATS BY THE SAME MECHANISM
CONTINGENT DRUG TOLERANCE
DRUG TOLERANCE THAT DEVELOPS AS A REACTION TO THE EXPERIENCE OF THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS RATHER THAN TO DRUG EXPOSURE ALONE
CONDITIONED DRUG TOLERANCE
TOLERANCE EFFECTS THAT ARE MAXIMALLY EXPRESSED ONLY WHEN A DRUG IS ADMINISTERED IN THE SITUATION IN WHICH IT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN ADMINISTERED
CONDITIONED COMPENSATORY RESPONSES
PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OPPOSITE TO THE EFFECTS OF A DRUG THAT ARE THOUGHT O BE ELICITED BY STIMULI THAT ARE REGULARLY ASSOCIATED WIHT EXPERIENCING THE DRUGS EFFECTS
CIRRHOSIS
SCARRING, TYPICALLY OF THE LIVER
COCAINE
A POTENT CATECHOLAMINE AGONIST AND STIMULANT THAT IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
CRACK
A POTENT, CHEAP, SMOKABLE FORM OF COCAINE
CONDITIONED PLACE-PREFERENCE PARADIGM
A TEST THAT ASSESSES A LAB ANIMAL'S PREFERENCE FOR ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IT HAS PREVIOUSLY EXPERIENCED DRUG EFFECTS
DRUG METABOLISM
THE CONVERSION OF A DRUG FORM ITS ACTIVE FORM TO A NONACTIVE FORM
DELIRIUM TREMENS
THE PHASE OF ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME CHARACTERIZED BY HALLUCINATIONS, DELUSIONS, AGITATION, CONFUSION, HYPERTHERMIA, AND TACHYCARDIA
DISULFIRAM
A DRUG THAT BLOCKS THE NORMAL METABOLISM OF ALCOHOL AND HAS BEEN USED IN THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM
DOPAMINE TRANSPORTERS
MOLECULES IN THE PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE OF DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS THAT ATTRACT DOPAMINE MOLECULES IN THE SYNAPTIC CLEFT AND DEPOSIT THEM BACK INSIDE THE NEURON
CODEINE
A RELATIVELY WEAK PSYCHOACTIVE INGREDIENT OF OPIUM
DETOXIFIED ADDICTS
ADDICTS WHO HAVE NONE OF THE DRUG TO WHICH THEY ARE ADDICTED IN THEIR BODY AND WHO ARE NO LONGER EXPERIENCING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION PARADIGM
A TEST OF THE ADDICTIVE POTENTIAL OF DRUGS IN WHICH LAB ANIMALS CAN INJECT DRUGS INTO THEMSELVES BY PRESSING A LEVER
EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULI
STIMULI THAT ARISSE FROM OUTSIDE THE BODY
FUNCTIONAL TOLERANCE
TOLERANCE RESULTING FROM A REDUCTION IN THE REACTIVITY OF THE NS TO A DRUG
HEDONIC VALUE
THE AMOUNT OF PLEASURE PRODUCED BY AN ACTION
HEROIN
A POWERFUL SEMISYNTHETIC OPIATE
HARRISON NARCOTICS ACT
THE ACT THAT MADE IT ILLEGAL TO SELL OR UE OPIUM, MORPHINE, OR COCAINE IN US (1914)
HASHISH
DARK CORKLIKE MATERIAL EXTRACTED FROM THE RESIN ON THE LEAVES AND FLOWERS OF CANNABIS SATIVA
INTEROCEPTIVE STIMULI
STIMULI THAT ARISE FORM INSIDE THE BODY
INCENTIVE-SENSIZITATION THEORY
THEORY THAT ADDICTIONS DEVELOP WHEN DRUG USE SENSITIZES THE NEURAL CIRCUITS MEDIATING WANTIN OF THE DRUG - NOT NECESSARILY LIKING OF THE DRUG
INTRACRANIAL SELF-STIMULATION
THE REPEATED PERFORMANCE OF A RESPONSE THAT DELIVERS ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO CERTAIN SITE IN THE ANIMALS BRAIN
METABOLIC TOLERANCE
TOLERANCE THAT RESULTS FROM A REDUCTION IN THE AMOUNT A DRUG GETTING TO ITS SITES OF ACTION
NARCOTIC
LEGAL CATEGORY OF DRUGS, MOSTLY OPIATES
MORPHINE
THE MAJOR PSYCHOACTIVE INGREDIENT IN OPIUM
MESOTELENCEPHALIC DOPAMINE SYSTEM
THE ASCENDING PROJECTIONS OF DOPAMINE-RELEASING NEURONS FROM THE SUBSTANTIA NIGRA AND VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA OF THE MESENCEPHALON INTO VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE TELENCEPHALON
POSITIVE-INCENTIVE THEORIES OF ADDICTION
THEORIES HOLDING THAT THE PRIMARY FACTOR IN MOST CASES OF ADDICTION IS A CRAVING FOR THE PLEASURE-PRODUCING PROPERTIES OF THE DRUG
POSITIVE-INCENTIVE VALUE
THE ANTICIPATED PLEASURE ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR ACTION

SUCH AS TAKING A DRUG
DRUG PRIMING
A SINGLE EXPOSURE TO A FORMERLY USED DRUG
PRIMED
INDUCED TO RESUME SELF-STIMULATION BY THE DELIVERY OF A FEW FREE STIMULATIONS
SMOKER'S SYNDROME
CHEST PAIN, LABORED BREATHING, WHEEZING, COUGHING, AND HEIGHTENED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATOR TRACT COMMONLY OBSERVED IN TOBACCO SMOKERS
OPIUM
SAP THAT EXUDES FORMT HE SEED PODS OF THE OPIUM POPPY
VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA
MIDBRAIN NUCLEUS OF THE MESOTELENCEPHALIC DOPAMINE SYSTEM THAT IS MAJOR SOURCE OF THE MESOSCORTICOLIMBIC PATHWAY
NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS
NUCLEUS OF THE VENTRAL STRIATUM AND A MAJOR TERMINAL OF THE MESOCORTICOLIMBIC DOPAMINE PATHWAY