ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2015
Alcohol Administration Increases Cocaine Craving But Not Cocaine Cue Attentional Bias.
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- Cocaine Cues Used in Experimental Research: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Attentional biases in abstinent patients with cocaine use disorder: rapid orienting or delayed disengagement?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A Brief Introduction to Human Behavioral Pharmacology: Methods, Design Considerations and Ethics.Perspectives on behavior science · 2022Article
- Trajectories of craving during medication-assisted treatment for opioid-use disorder: Subtyping for early identification of higher risk.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Alterations of Amphetamine Reward by Prior Nicotine and Alcohol Treatment: The Role of Age and Dopamine.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Does Reducing Drinking in Patients with Unhealthy Alcohol Use Improve Pain Interference, Use of Other Substances, and Psychiatric Symptoms?Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Observational
- Association of Alcohol Screening Scores With Adverse Mental Health Conditions and Substance Use Among US Adults.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Influence of Cocaine-Related Images and Alcohol Administration on Inhibitory Control in Cocaine Users.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017Article
- Effects of ethanol on cocaine self-administration in monkeys responding under a second-order schedule of reinforcement.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol consumption is a known antecedent to cocaine relapse. Through associative conditioning, it is hypothesized that alcohol increases incentive motivation for cocaine and thus the salience of cocaine-related cues, which are important in maintaining drug-taking behavior. Cocaine-using individuals display a robust cocaine cue attentional bias as measured by fixation time during the visual probe task. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of alcohol administration on cocaine cue attentional bias using eye-tracking technology to directly measure attentional allocation.
methodsTwenty current cocaine users completed a double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subjects study that tested the effect of 3 doses of alcohol (0.00, 0.325, and 0.65 g/kg) on cocaine cue attentional bias using the visual probe task with eye-tracking technology. The participant-rated and physiological effects of alcohol were also assessed.
resultsParticipants displayed a robust cocaine cue attentional bias following both placebo and alcohol administration as measured by fixation time, but not response time. Alcohol administration did not influence cocaine cue attentional bias, but increased craving for cocaine in a dose-dependent manner. Alcohol produced prototypic psychomotor and participant-rated effects.
conclusionsAlcohol administration increases cocaine craving but not cocaine cue attentional bias. Alcohol-induced cocaine craving suggests that alcohol increases incentive motivation for cocaine but not the salience of cocaine-related cues.
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