Social reinforcement-based treatments are effective for many, but not all, people with
addictions to drugs. We recently developed an operant rat model that mimics features of one …

It is difficult to translate results from animal research on addiction to an understanding of the
behavior of human drug users. Despite decades of basic research on neurobiological …

Background We recently reported that operant social choice–induced voluntary abstinence
prevents incubation of methamphetamine craving. Here, we determined whether social …

The interaction between social factors and alcohol addiction is complex, with potential for
both positive and negative contributions to drug use and abstinence. Positive social …

A recent thrust in drug abuse research is the influence of social interactions on drug effects.
Therefore, the present study examined conditioned place preference (CPP) as a model for …

Until recently, most modern neuroscience research on addiction using animal models did
not incorporate manipulations of social factors. Social factors play a critical role in human …

Rationale Studies in human and non-human primates demonstrate that social status is an
important determinant of cocaine reinforcement. However, it is unclear whether social rank is …

Background Social learning models of substance use propose that drug-use behaviors are
learned by observing and mimicking the behavior of others. The aim of this study was to …

Social-learning theories of substance use propose that members of peer groups influence
the drug use of other members by selectively modeling, reinforcing, and punishing either …

Rationale One problem facing animal models of intravenous drug self-administration,
particularly those examining social manipulations, is that subjects must be removed from the …