Introduction

Drug Discrimination is widely recognized as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse.

Drug Self-administration methodology is central to the experimental analysis of drug abuse and dependence (addiction). It constitutes a key technique in numerous investigations of drug intake and its neurobiological basis and has even been described by some as the “gold standard" among methods in the area.


Recent changes to keywords:

Nearly all keywords in the database are now in a hierarchical system. This does not impact upon use of the website. It allows us to make more accurate assignments of keywords to the categories of search terms on the website and to work in a more time-efficient manner.

Each keyword ends with text that indicates the category of keywords to which it belongs Thus, keywords in the categories 'Article type', 'Drug class', 'Methodological term' and 'Species' now have the following suffixes added to them: [type], [dc], [method] and [species]. If you download the database for use on your own computer, then it is recommended to delete the old version and replace it with the new one, rather than adding just new references to the old one; this approach will avoid having a mixture of old and new keywords in the same database.




Important message:

This is the current website for the combined drug self-administration and drug discrimination databases. It replaces the two former separate websites for Ian Stolerman's drug discrimination database and Dick Meisch's drug self-administration database. If you have problems with the website or wish to make suggestions for improving it,  please email to Ian Stolerman. Please note that the old separate websites for the drug discrimination database and the drug self-administration database have been closed down.