Table of Contents:
  • Introduction.
  • Toward an account of individual differences in drug abuse
  • Acquisition and reacquisition (relapse) of drug abuse: modulation by alternative reinforcers
  • The influence of behavioral and pharmacological history on the reinforcing effects of cocaine in rhesus monkeys
  • Stimulant preexposure sensitizes rats and humans to the rewarding effects of cocaine
  • Stress, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and vulnerability to drug abuse
  • Behavioral and biological factors associated with individual vulnerability to psychostimulant abuse
  • Addictive behavior with and without pharmacologic action: critical role of stimulus control
  • Taste and diet preferences as predictors of drug self-administration
  • Individual differences in acute effects of drugs in humans: their relevance to risk for abuse
  • Substance abuse vulnerability in offspring of alcohol and drug abusers
  • Integrating genetic and behavioral models in the study of substance abuse mechanisms
  • Disaggregating the liability for drug abuse.