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Introduction

Drug Self-administration methodology is central to the experimental analysis of drug abuse and dependence (addiction). It constitutes a key technique in numerous investigations of drug intake and its neurobiological basis and has even been described as the “gold standard" among the behavioral methods in the field.

Drug Discrimination is widely recognized as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse.


Update of August 2011:

The database has been enlarged to include additional, recently published work. Publications available online are included and can be located by searching PubMed or, in some cases, by using the link to MEDLINE abstracts that appears below the bibliographic details in the list of references retrieved by a search. Volume and page numbers will be added when available.


Provision of context-dependent help.

Current development of the database is focussing on enhanced help facilities. The enhancement will consist of links at various places that will bring up new windows ('popups') that explain the meaning or use of the linked item. At this time only one such link is in place: on the Advanced Search page, clicking on the words Training Drug brings a popup that explains what the term means, both for drug discrimination and drug self-administration research. Similar links will be added at other places on the Advanced Seach and other pages.


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