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The Addiction Research Center (ARC) began as the research component of the U.S. Narcotics Prison Farm located in Lexington, Kentucky. It was a very important site for early clinical pharmacology studies of opioids and other drugs of abuse. Methods for assessing the physiological and subjective effects of drugs of abuse were refined here, and include such instruments as the Addiction Research Center Inventory and the Single Dose Questionnaire. The ARC eventually became the intramural research unit of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and moved to Baltimore, Maryland.
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Balster, R.L., Walsh, S.L. (2010). Addiction Research Center. In: Stolerman, I.P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68706-1_937
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