Substance Use Disorders, 1st ed. 2020 From Etiology to Treatment Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology Series, Vol. 258

1.       Methods for Population Research on Substance Use and Consequences

Mark Wolfson, Kimberly G. Wagoner, Eunyoung Y. Song, Melinda Pankratz, Sunday Azagba

  2.       Translational Molecular Approaches  in Substance Abuse Research

    Sasha L. Fulton and Ian Maze

3.       Small Molecule Neuropeptide-S and Melanocortin  Receptor Ligands  As Potential Treatments for Substance Use Disorders

Bruce Blough and Ojas Namjoshi 

4.       Emerging Insights into Mu Opioid Pharmacology

   Gavril W. Pasternak, Steven R. Childers, and Ying-Xian Pan

5.       Behavioral Pharmacology of Drugs Acting at Mu Opioid Receptors

   Lisa R. Gerak, David R. Maguire, and Charles P. France

6.       The Rise and Fall of Kappa-Opioid Receptors in Drug Abuse Research

   Matthew L. Banks

7.       Clinical Trials for Opioid Use Disorder

   Esther Blessing, Sanya Virani, and John Rotrosen

8.       Modelling Differential Vulnerability  to Substance Use Disorder in Rodents:  Neurobiological Mechanisms

    Bianca Jupp, Jolyon A. Jones, and Jeffrey W. Dalley

9.       Activity-Dependent Epigenetic Remodeling  in Cocaine Use Disorder

   Alberto J. López, Cody A. Siciliano, and Erin S. Calipari

10.   Molecular Mechanisms of Amphetamines

   Maarten E. A. Reith and Margaret E. Gnegy

11.   Clinical Trials for Stimulant Use Disorders:  Addressing Heterogeneities That May  Undermine Treatment Outcomes

12.   Molecular Mechanism and Cannabinoid  Pharmacology

    Lesley D. Schurman, Dai Lu, Debra A. Kendall, Allyn C. Howlett, 3 and Aron H. Lichtman

13.   Pharmacotherapies for Cannabis Use Disorders: Clinical Challenges and Promising Therapeutic Agents

Suzanne Nielsen, Pamela Sabioni, Linda Gowing, and Bernard Le Foll

14.   Molecular Mechanisms Associated with Nicotine Pharmacology and Dependence

Christie D. Fowler, Jill R. Turner, and M. Imad Damaj

15.   Randomized Clinical Trials Investigating Innovative Interventions for Smoking Cessation in the Last Decade

Marie N. S. Gendy, Christine Ibrahim, Matthew E. Sloan, and Bernard Le Foll

16.   Adolescent Vulnerability to Alcohol Use  Disorder: Neurophysiological Mechanisms  from Preclinical Studies

Brian A. McCool and Molly M. McGinnis

Lorenzo Leggio, Daniel E. Falk, Megan L. Ryan, Joanne Fertig, 3 and Raye Z. Litten

18.   Newly Emerging Drugs of Abuse

Kenichi Tamama and Michael J. Lynch

Focuses on each substance used and abused from epidemiology, molecular biology, animal models and human subjects/clinical research reinforcing basic principles of pharmacology throughout

Broadens understanding of the commonalities and differences associated with each drug of abuse

Provides the reader with state-of-the-art, cutting edge research methods