Drugs & Behavior (7th Edition)

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Description

An up-to-date overview of behavioral pharmacology.

 

Drugs & Behavior starts with descriptions of basic pharmacological concepts of drug administration and pharmacokinetics, research methodology including clinical trials, tolerance and withdrawal, drug conditioning, addiction processes, and the neuroscience of drug action. Each and every chapter applies these concepts to different classes of recreational and therapeutic drugs.

 

Each chapter also features a section at the history of the drug class being described to position the drugs of their historical and social context. The text is written to be understandable to students and not using a background in pharmacology, neuroscience, or psychology.

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will have to be capable of:

  • Understand the behaviors of people that use drugs as medicine and for recreation
  • Understand new trends and developments in pharmacology
  • Identify the subjective, behavioral, and neurological differences between using both classes of drug

 

 

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