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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
卷 317, 期 2, 页码 711-723出版社
AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.105.095380
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01-DA02519, P01-DA14528] Funding Source: Medline
Several medications are approved for treatment of opiate abuse, but determinants of their clinical effectiveness are not completely understood. States of opiate dependence or withdrawal may constitute one important set of determinants. To test this hypothesis, the effects of naloxone, buprenorphine, and methadone were assessed on choice between heroin and food in nondependent rhesus monkeys and in heroin-dependent monkeys undergoing withdrawal. A choice procedure was used to permit dissociation of medication effects on the relative reinforcing properties of heroin from nonselective effects on response rates. In nondependent monkeys, increasing unit doses of heroin ( 0-0.1 mg/kg/injection) maintained dose-dependent increases in heroin choice. Chronic 5-day treatment with naloxone ( 0.01-0.32 mg/kg/h) or buprenorphine ( 0.01-0.1 mg/kg/day) produced dose-dependent rightward shifts in heroin choice dose-effect curves, whereas chronic methadone ( 0.1-0.56 mg/kg/h) had little effect on heroin choice up to doses that suppressed responding. In heroin-dependent monkeys, opiate withdrawal produced overt abstinence signs as well as increases in heroin choice, manifested as leftward shifts in heroin choice dose-effect curves. The withdrawal-associated increases in heroin choice suggest that opiate withdrawal increased the relative reinforcing efficacy of heroin in comparison with food, an effect that may be related to relapse in humans. Methadone prevented withdrawal-associated increases in heroin choice, whereas buprenorphine was less effective. These findings suggest that agonist medications such as methadone may derive their clinical utility from their ability to attenuate withdrawal-associated increases in opiate reinforcement. Moreover, this procedure may be useful for exploring mechanisms underlying withdrawal-associated increases in opiate reinforcement and for testing candidate medications.
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