Drug discrimination

Not to be confused with Discrimination against drug addicts.
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Drug discrimination (DD) is a technique in behavioral neuroscience used to evaluate the discriminative stimulus properties of psychoactive drugs.[1][2][3][4] The discriminative stimulus properties of drugs are believed to reflect their subjective effects.[1] When partial or full stimulus generalization of a test drug to a training drug occurs, the test drug can be assumed to have effects that are subjectively similar to those of the training drug.[2] Drug discrimination tests are usually performed in animals, but have also been conducted in humans.[5][6] Drug discrimination assays have been employed to assess whether drugs have hallucinogen- or entactogen-like effects, among many other types of drug effects.[7][8][9]

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  7. ^ Baker LE (2018). "Hallucinogens in Drug Discrimination". Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 36: 201–219. doi:10.1007/7854_2017_476. PMID 28484970.
  8. ^ Winter JC (April 2009). "Hallucinogens as discriminative stimuli in animals: LSD, phenethylamines, and tryptamines". Psychopharmacology (Berl). 203 (2): 251–263. doi:10.1007/s00213-008-1356-8. PMID 18979087.
  9. ^ Mori T, Suzuki T (2018). "The Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Hallucinogenic and Dissociative Anesthetic Drugs". Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 39: 141–152. doi:10.1007/7854_2016_29. PMID 27586539.