Discriminative stimulus effects of alcohol in humans
The discriminative stimulus effects of alcohol were examined in 11 healthy moderate alcohol users. Study days occurred 5 days per week for 12–25 total days. Each day, participants completed visual-analog reports of drug effect and drug-discrimination tasks at 30-min intervals for 2.5 h following ora...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Drug and alcohol dependence 1997-12, Vol.48 (3), p.199-207 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The discriminative stimulus effects of alcohol were examined in 11 healthy moderate alcohol users. Study days occurred 5 days per week for 12–25 total days. Each day, participants completed visual-analog reports of drug effect and drug-discrimination tasks at 30-min intervals for 2.5 h following oral alcohol administration. Participants completed three phases. During the training phase, which occurred on the first 4 study days, participants were trained to discriminate color-coded placebo and alcohol doses (0 vs. 0.45 g per liter of body water (g/lbw)). Participants then completed a control phase, during which accurate drug-discrimination performance was verified. Finally, participants completed a testing phase, during which both training and intermediate doses (0.15 and 0.30 g/lbw) were administered. During the testing phase, 25 and 100% of responses occurred on the alcohol key at the 0- and 0.45-g/lbw doses, respectively, indicating that discrimination responding remained intact. At the low dose (0.15 g/lbw), 25% of the subjects responded on the alcohol key, whereas 75% of the subjects responded on the alcohol key at the moderate dose (0.30 g/lbw), indicating dose-related generalization to the training doses. These results confirm cross-species generality in the discriminative stimulus effects of alcohol, and further establishes the utility of human laboratory drug-discrimination procedures for analysis of the functional effects of alcohol. |
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ISSN: | 0376-8716 1879-0046 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0376-8716(97)00126-9 |