NCJ Number
190717
Editor(s)
Louis S. Harris Ph.D.
Date Published
March 2001
Length
226 pages
Annotation
This monograph was based on papers or presentations from the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc. (San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 17-22, 2000), an independent, nonprofit organization that conducts drug testing and evaluations for academic institutions, government, and industry.
Abstract
Following the Nathan B. Eddy Memorial Award Lecture on cannabinoid and opioid research and administration, papers presented at 13 symposiums were provided. Topics addressed in these symposiums included the abuse potential assessment of glutamate antagonists; gender issues in drug addiction treatment for women; the antecedents, consequences, and treatment of drug abuse; HIV prevention interventions that target drug users; the effects of acute and chronic opiates on receptors and signal transduction systems; and ethnic and cultural issues in drug abuse and drug dependence research. Other symposium topics pertained to phenotypic differences in drug effects related to behavioral traits versus states, whether the neuroimmune connections related to drug abuse were important in humans, novel analgesic and narcotic antagonist drugs, and the interaction of drugs of abuse and chemokine receptors in relationship to AIDS. Four annual and progress reports on various projects were also presented. These included reports on the biological evaluation of compounds for their physical dependence potential and abuse liability; a progress report from the testing program for stimulant and depressant drugs (2000); a biological evaluation of compounds for their physical dependence (2000); and dependence studies of new compounds in the Rhesus monkey, rat, and mouse (2000).