Description:
1. Understand the magnitude of amphetamine abuse and dependence.
2. Understand the role of human behavioral pharmacology experiments in the development of pharmacotherapies or the treatment of amphetamine dependence.
3. Understand the differenct pharmacological approaches that are used to develop medications for the treatment of amphetamine dependence.
4. Understand the efficacy of a variety of medications that have been tested as putative pharmacotherapies.
Speaker(s):
Craig R. Rush, Ph.D., professor, Departments of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Kentucky
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