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Taste Thresholds in Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
Author(s) -
Smith S. E.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1972.tb01214.x
Subject(s) - addiction , quinine , drug , drug addict , amphetamine , taste , medicine , psychology , hallucinogen , psychiatry , pharmacology , dopamine , neuroscience , malaria , immunology
Summary Taste thresholds to quinine have been measured in 27 drug addicts and 28 alcoholics. By comparison with suitably matched control healthy subjects, drug addicts had significantly lower, and alcoholics significantly higher, thresholds. In the drug addicts no relationship was found between thresholds to quinine, amphetamine and pentobarbitone and individual drug‐taking preferences for amphetamines, hypnotics, narcotics or psychotomimetic agents. The significance of these findings is discussed.