ArticleExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2016
The effects of social contact on cocaine intake under extended-access conditions in male rats.
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- Role of social context in addiction etiology and recovery.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Review
- Demand and cross-price elasticity of cocaine and social contact in a free-operant procedure of nonexclusive choice.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Article
- The Protective Effect of Social Reward on Opioid and Psychostimulant Reward and Relapse: Behavior, Pharmacology, and Brain Regions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Review
- Lack of evidence for positive reinforcing and prosocial effects of MDMA in pair-housed male and female rats.European journal of pharmacology · 2021Article
- Social Contact Reinforces Cocaine Self-Administration in Young Adult Male Rats: The Role of Social Reinforcement in Vulnerability to Drug Use.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Enhancement of Drug Seeking Following Drug Taking in a Sexual Context Requires Anterior Cingulate Cortex Activity in Male Rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Nonhuman animal models of substance use disorders: Translational value and utility to basic science.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Review
- The effects of social contact on cocaine intake in female rats.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Article
- Modeling the Impact of Social Contact on Substance Use.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2017Article
- The Effects of Excitatory and Inhibitory Social Cues on Cocaine-Seeking Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Social learning theories of drug use propose that drug use is influenced by the behavior of peers. We previously reported that cocaine self-administration under limited-access conditions can be either facilitated or inhibited by social contact, depending on the behavior of a peer. The purpose of this study was to determine whether social contact influences cocaine self-administration under conditions that are more representative of problematic patterns of drug use. Male rats were assigned to either isolated or pair-housed conditions in which a social partner either had access to cocaine or did not have access to cocaine. Pair-housed rats were tested in custom-built operant conditioning chambers that allowed both rats to be tested simultaneously in the same chamber. In Experiment 1, rats were tested for 14 consecutive days during daily 6-hr test sessions. In Experiment 2, different doses of cocaine were tested in 23-hr test sessions conducted every 3 days. All groups of rats escalated their cocaine intake in Experiment 1; however, pair-housed rats with a partner without access to cocaine had lower levels of intake throughout the 14 days of testing. In Experiment 2, pair-housed rats with a partner without access to cocaine had lower levels of cocaine intake than did rats with a partner with access to cocaine, and this effect was observed at all doses of cocaine tested. These data indicate that the behavior of a social partner (i.e., whether or not that partner is also self-administering cocaine) influences cocaine self-administration under conditions that model problematic patterns of drug use. (PsycINFO Database Record
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