Abstract
Behavioral effects of drugs depend not only on their direct pharmacologic actions, but on the contingencies maintaining behavior as well (Sidman, 1956). This notion of drug-environment interaction applies equally to the analysis of factors influencing drug self-administration (Thompson and Schuster, 1968). Whether a drug will be self-administered depends not only on the type of drug, but also on the environmental conditions under which the drug is made available. Among the classes of environmental variables determining whether a drug will be self-administered are (a) past history of the subjects, (b) motivational factors, (c) current environmental conditions, and (d) reinforcement variables (Schuster and Thompson, 1969).
The research reported in this chapter was supported by Research Grants MH-15349, MH-14112, and MH-08565 from USPHS to the University of Minnesota.
The authors are particularly grateful to R.A. Meisch for permitting us to present his data in this report.
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Thompson, T., Bigelow, G., Pickens, R. (1971). Environmental Variables Influencing Drug Self-Administration. In: Thompson, T., Pickens, R. (eds) Stimulus Properties of Drugs. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0788-5_12
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