Human Laboratory Settings for Assessing Drug Craving; Implications for the Evaluation of Treatment Efficacy
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tudies show that there is a pivotal relation ship between craving and addiction (World Health Organization, 1955). Although craving has a complexity in definition but craving for a drug may be defined as a strong desire to crave, acquire and use drug, and may be evoked even after periods of sustained abstinence by exposure to stressful situations, to drug, or to environmental cues previously associated with drug use (Mahoney et al., 2007; Sinha, 2001).
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Human Laboratory Settings for Assessing Drug Craving Implications for the Evaluation of Treatment Efficacy
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