ReviewPsychopharmacology2018
Considering the context: social factors in responses to drugs in humans.
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- Exploring associations between drinking contexts and alcohol consumption: An analysis of photographs.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Drug testing after use: what insights can be gained from a harm reduction perspective on visitors of the drugs information and monitoring system (DIMS) in the Netherlands?Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- MDMA as well as amphetamine and alcohol increase feelings of social closeness in healthy adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Social stimuli impact behavioral responses to caffeine in the zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Initial evidence of delay discounting's predictive utility for alcohol self-administration in ecologically valid contexts among young adults who drink heavily.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
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- The connection still matters: Therapeutic alliance with digital treatment for alcohol use disorder.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Drug-induced social connection: both MDMA and methamphetamine increase feelings of connectedness during controlled dyadic conversations.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Role of social context in addiction etiology and recovery.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Review
- VR for Studying the Neuroscience of Emotional Responses.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Harmful Drinking Phenotype in a Large Dutch Community Sample.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Article
- Friend of the Devil: Negative Social Influences Driving Substance Use Disorders.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Associations between alcohol demand and both the experience and subjective evaluation of positive and negative alcohol-related consequences.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Social facilitation of alcohol subjective effects in adolescents: Associations with subsequent alcohol use.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- The importance of psychology for shaping legal cannabis regulation.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Review
- Effects of systemic endocannabinoid manipulation on social and exploratory behavior in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Changes in Substance Use Among People Seeking Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating Mental Health Outcomes and Resilience.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundDrugs are typically used in social settings. Here, we consider two factors that may contribute to this observation: (i) the presence of other people may enhance the positive mood effects of a drug, and conversely, (ii) drugs may enhance the value of social stimuli.
methodsWe review evidence from controlled laboratory studies with human volunteers, which investigated either of these interactions between social factors and responses to drugs. We examine the bidirectional effects of social stimuli and single doses of alcohol, stimulants, opioids, and cannabis.
resultsAll four classes of drugs interact with social contexts, but the nature of these interactions varies across drugs, and depends on whether the context is positive or negative.
conclusionsAlcohol and stimulant drugs enhance the attractiveness of social stimuli and the desire to socialize, and social contexts, in turn, enhance these drugs' effects. In contrast, opioids and cannabis have subtler effects on social interactions and their effects are less influenced by the presence of others. Overall, there is stronger evidence that drugs enhance positive social contexts than that they dampen the negativity of unpleasant social settings. Controlled research is needed to understand the interactions between drugs of abuse and social contexts, to model and understand the determinants of drug use outside the laboratory.
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