Drug Abuse

Question 1

List the three parts of drug dependence

Answer 1

Tolerance

Physical dependence

Psychological dependence

Question 2

Describe three steps self-administration procedure of drug addiction in animals

Answer 2

If rodent presses active lever it receives the drug

If rodent presses inactive lever it doesn’t receive the drug

Over a period of time and trials the animal will learn to press the active lever more and more, in the same way a drug addict would do

Question 3

State two other animal model paradigms

Answer 3

Conditioned place preference

Drug discrimination paradigms