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Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Drugs pp 187–206Cite as

Drugs as Discriminable Events in Humans

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Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology ((ABBI,volume 22))

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Behavioral pharmacology has generally focused upon one aspect of drug action, the unconditioned effect. This usually describes the influence of administered substanced upon either physiological (e.g., heart rate, temperature), behavioral (e.g., latency, discrimination ability), or psychological (e. g., mood, personality) measures (Efron, 1968). It is possible, however, to examine other drug properties. For example, the ability of compounds to function as reinforcers has been demonsträted in studies in which organisms will emit specified behaviors to obtain drugs (Schuster and Thompson, 1969; Brecher, 1972). In addition, there is now widespread evidence derived from the animal laboratory that ingested substances can act as stimulus events (Thompson and Pickens, 1971) controlling behavior in the

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    Jack L. Altman & Stephen L. Milstein

  2. Institut de Recherches Psychiatriques de Joliette, Hôpital St-Charles, Joliette, Quebec, Canada

    Jean-Marie Albert

  3. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA

    Isaac Greenberg

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Altman, J.L., Albert, JM., Milstein, S.L., Greenberg, I. (1977). Drugs as Discriminable Events in Humans. In: Lal, H. (eds) Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Drugs. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3090-5_11

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