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Unit 1: Background
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Note: Chapter assignments may change during the semester. Check back here for course revisions throughout the term. (Be sure to use the reload/refresh button on your browser each time you view this page.). Click here for the Table of Contents and for the lists of figures and tables which is revised periodically.
Unit 1a: The Problem of Addiction	Chapter 1
Unit 1b: Case Studies
Unit 1c: Concepts & Definitions	Chapter 2
Unit 1d: Demographics & Epidemiological Considerations	Chapter 3
Unit 1e: Historical Perspective	Introductory material from Chapters 8 & 9 Before Prohibition: Images from the Preprohibition Era

Unit 2: Drug Action & Classification
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Unit 2a: Psychopharmacology Review	Chapter 4
Unit 2b: Classification Schemes	Drug Classification and Illicit Drug Index

Unit 3: Scientific Study of Addiction
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Unit 3a: Theories of Addiction	Chapter 5
Unit 3b: Methods of Studying Drug Reinforcement	Chapter 6 Virtual Lab Tours ARU Research Facilities: BSR ARU Research Facilities: CPP/LMA ARU Research Facilities: ICSA/rotation ARU Research Facilities: IVSA
Unit 3c: Addiction as a Motivational Process	Chapter 7
Bozarth (ed., 1987): Methods of Assessing the Reinforcing Properties of Abused Drugs

Unit 4: Biological Basis of Addiction
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Unit 4a: Neurobiology of Brain Reward Systems	Chapter 8 Biological Mechanisms of Addiction Bozarth (1994): Pleasure Systems in the Brain
Unit 4b: Psychomotor Stimulants	Chapter 9 Bozarth & Wise (1985): Toxicity associated with long-term intravenous heroin and cocaine self-administration in the rat Bozarth (1989): New Perspectives on Cocaine Addiction
Unit 4c: Opioids	Chapter 10 Bozarth & Wise (1982): Localization of the Reward-Relevant Opiate Receptors Bozarth & Wise (1984): Anatomically Distinct Opiate Receptor Fields Mediate Reward and Physical Dependence Bozarth & Wise (1986): Involvement of the Ventral Tegmental Dopamine System in Opioid and Psychomotor Stimulant Reward Bozarth (1994): Opiate Reinforcement Processes: Reassembling Multiple Mechanisms
Unit 4e: Factors Modulating Addiction	Chapter 11 Bozarth (2000): Reward Mechanisms in Normal and Pathological Behavior –The Dopamine Link as a Target for Therapeutic Intervention

Unit 5: Integrative Aspects & Advanced Topics
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Unit 5a: A Psychobiological Model of Addiction	Chapter 12
Unit 5b: Other Illicit Drugs	Chapter 13
Unit 5b: Addiction to Commonly Used Substances?	Chapter 14 (The DSM-IV & Sasha Addiction)
Unit 5c: Non-Chemical Addictions?	Chapter 15
Unit 5d: Treatment Considerations	Chapters 16 & 17
Unit 5e: Harm-Reduction Strategies	Chapter 18
Unit 5f: The Politics of Addiction	Chapters 19 & 20

Supplementary Materials

An introduction to Internet surfing

cocaine self-administration
Part-1 (PDF, 6 slides/page)
Part-2 (PDF, 6 slides/page)
Part-3 (PDF, 6 slides/page)

When Rationality Fails –Modern Theories of Addiction

Reward Mechanisms in Normal and Pathological Behavior –The Dopamine Link as a Target for Therapeutic Intervention

Education

Harm Reduction

Treatment

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