Increased Ethanol Consumption Following Chronic Psychosocial Stress: Do Oxytocin and Baclofen Hold any Therapeutic Promise?
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1 Section on Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 2 Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA *Correspondence: [email protected]
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