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  1. Discipline of Pharmacology, The University of Sydney, Blackburn Building, D06, University of Sydney, 2006, NSW, Australia

    MacDonald J. Christie

  2. Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave, 98663, Vancouver, WA, USA

    Michael M. Morgan

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  1. Section of Behavioural Pharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

    Ian P. Stolerman

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI, USA

    Lawrence H. Price

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Christie, M.J., Morgan, M.M. (2015). Opioids. In: Stolerman, I.P., Price, L.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36172-2_159

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