Research

The Behavioral Pharmacology and Health Promotion Laboratory (BPHP) conducts research on cognitive and behavioral factors that influence drug taking and drug effects. The goal of this research is to better understand the development and treatment of drug dependence. BPHP focuses on tobacco and caffeine; two widely used and important psychoactive drugs, which also serve as suitable models for examining basic factors in drug dependence. On-going studies in the laboratory are examining:

• Behavioral treatments for nicotine dependence.
• Factors that influence caffeine physical dependence and withdrawal
• The development and influence of drug outcome expectancies
• The role that negative affect plays in smoking maintenance and relapse
• Reactions to cigarettes with and without nicotine

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