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| Sean P BarrettSummaryAffiliation: Dalhousie University Country: Canada Publications
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The effects of nicotine, denicotinized tobacco, and nicotine-containing tobacco on cigarette craving, withdrawal, and self-administration in male and female smokersSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS B3H 4J1, Canada
Behav Pharmacol 21:144-52. 2010..Findings suggest that DT is effective in acutely reducing many smoking abstinence symptoms, especially in women, but a combination of nicotine and non-nicotine tobacco ingredients may be necessary to suppress smoking behavior...
The acute effect of Swedish-style snus on cigarette craving and self-administration in male and female smokersSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hum Psychopharmacol 26:58-62. 2011..However, to date, little work has been done to evaluate the extent to which SS affects cigarette cravings and smoking behavior under double-blind controlled conditions...- The acute effects of nicotine on the subjective and behavioural responses to denicotinized tobacco in dependent smokersSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Behav Pharmacol 23:221-7. 2012..01), independent of lozenge condition. The findings suggest that both nicotine and non-nicotine smoking factors may make important contributions towards the addictive properties of tobacco... - What constitutes prescription drug misuse? Problems and pitfalls of current conceptualizationsSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Curr Drug Abuse Rev 1:255-62. 2008..In the present review many of the problems and challenges for adequately defining prescription drug misuse will be overviewed and recommendations will be made on how to better characterize this phenomenon... 
The relationship between self-reported substance use and psychiatric symptoms in low-threshold methadone maintenance treatment clientsHeather G Fulton
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Harm Reduct J 8:18. 2011..abstract:..- Nicotine increases alcohol self-administration in non-dependent male smokersSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1B1
Drug Alcohol Depend 81:197-204. 2006..This study sought to determine how nicotine delivered by tobacco smoke influences alcohol intake in humans using a double-blind placebo controlled repeated measures design... - Psychostimulant users are sensitive to the stimulant properties of alcohol as indexed by alcohol-induced cardiac reactivityCaroline Brunelle
Department of PsychologyMcGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Psychol Addict Behav 20:478-83. 2006..Caseras, 2001) compared with never users. Stimulant drug users may be more sensitive to the stimulating properties of alcohol, and this appears to be mediated by superior activity in the Behavioral Approach System (J. A. Gray, 1991)... - The role of dopamine in alcohol self-administration in humans: individual differencesSean P Barrett
Psychology Department, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 18:439-47. 2008..To clarify dopamine's role in alcohol self-administration in a heterogeneous sample of drinkers using acute phenylalanine/tyrosine depletion (APTD)... - Patterns and predictors of medication compliance, diversion, and misuse in adult prescribed methylphenidate usersChristine Darredeau
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hum Psychopharmacol 22:529-36. 2007..To examine patterns and predictors of medication compliance, diversion, and misuse in a sample of adults with prescriptions for the stimulant medication methylphenidate (MPH)... - A comparison of gambling behavior, problem gambling indices, and reasons for gambling among smokers and nonsmokers who gamble: evidence from a provincial gambling prevalence studyDaniel S McGrath
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nicotine Tob Res 14:833-9. 2012..The current study aimed to provide more insight into this relationship by directly comparing nonsmoking and smoking gamblers on gambling behavior, problem gambling indices, and reasons for gambling... - The role of nicotine content information in smokers' subjective responses to nicotine and placebo inhalersChristine Darredeau
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hum Psychopharmacol 25:577-81. 2010..This study examined the role of information about nicotine content in smokers' subjective responses to nicotine and placebo inhalers, using the four conditions of the balanced-placebo design in a mixed within/between-subjects design... - Characteristics of methylphenidate misuse in a university student sampleSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Can J Psychiatry 50:457-61. 2005..Methylphenidate (MPH) is a prescription stimulant drug with known abuse potential; however, little is known about its patterns of misuse or the characteristics of its abusers... - Effects of expectancy and abstinence on the neural response to smoking cues in cigarette smokers: an fMRI studyDharma McBride
McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Neuropsychopharmacology 31:2728-38. 2006..Our findings confirm the importance of expectancy in the neural response to drug cues, and lend support to the theory that these cues act on brain areas involved in arousal and attention... - Patterns of simultaneous polysubstance use in drug using university studentsSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hum Psychopharmacol 21:255-63. 2006..001), LSD (p < 0.01) or methylphenidate (p < 0.05). Results suggest that many substances are routinely used in a SPU context and that the pattern in which a substance is used may be related to other substances co-administered... - The effects of acute doses of nicotine on video lottery terminal gambling in daily smokersDaniel S McGrath
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 220:155-61. 2012.... - Relationship between the cardiac response to acute intoxication and alcohol-induced subjective effects throughout the blood alcohol concentration curveCaroline Brunelle
Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Saint John campus, New Brunswick, Canada
Hum Psychopharmacol 22:437-43. 2007.... - Prescription opioid misuse: characteristics of earliest and most recent memory of hydromorphone useHeather G Fulton
Departments of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J Addict Med 6:137-44. 2012..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of initial, and more recent, hydromorphone use occasions as remembered by a population of individuals in treatment for their opioid use... - Alcohol and tobacco co-use in nondaily smokers: an inevitable phenomenon?Mallory L Campbell
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 31:447-50. 2012..However, little is known about the extent to which these subgroups differ in their alcohol-tobacco co-administration patterns... - Energy drink co-administration is associated with increased reported alcohol ingestionStephen R Price
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 29:331-3. 2010..The purpose of the present research was to characterise patterns of ED and alcohol co-administration... - The comorbidity of tobacco smoking and gambling: a review of the literatureDaniel S McGrath
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 28:676-81. 2009.... - Patterns of simultaneous polysubstance use in Canadian rave attendeesSean P Barrett
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Subst Use Misuse 40:1525-37. 2005..Results indicated that respondents could reliably recall details about which drugs were used, the total doses administered, as well as order of drug administration... - Drug misuse and diversion in adults prescribed anxiolytics and sedativesMegan E McLarnon
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Pharmacotherapy 31:262-72. 2011..To identify patterns of misuse and diversion of anxiolytic and sedative drugs among a sample of adults prescribed these drugs... - The hedonic response to cigarette smoking is proportional to dopamine release in the human striatum as measured by positron emission tomography and [11C]racloprideSean P Barrett
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada
Synapse 54:65-71. 2004..These results suggest that pleasurable drug experiences are associated with increased dopamine transmission in the dorsal striatum while unpleasant experiences may be related to decreased dopamine release in this region... - The influence of acutely administered nicotine on cue-induced craving for gambling in at-risk video lottery terminal gamblers who smokeDaniel S McGrath
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Behav Pharmacol 24:124-32. 2013..These results suggest that a low dose of acutely administered nicotine does not increase cue-induced craving for gambling in at-risk VLT gamblers who smoke... - Substance use initiation: the role of simultaneous polysubstance useJanine V Olthuis
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 32:67-71. 2013..Simultaneous polysubstance use (SPU) is a common phenomenon, yet little is known about its role in substance use initiation... - Heightened heart rate response to alcohol intoxication is associated with a reward-seeking personality profileCaroline Brunelle
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:394-401. 2004..the association between a high HR response and various personality traits (hopelessness/introversion, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity, and sensation-seeking) and (2). the relationship between these personality traits and stimulant use... - A demonstration of intravenous nicotine self-administration in humans?Heather G Fulton
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:2042-3; author reply 2044. 2008 - Ecstasy and drug consumption patterns: a Canadian rave population studySamantha R Gross
National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK
Can J Psychiatry 47:546-51. 2002..Results also indicate that the sequence of drug experimentation in this population follows an identifiable pattern...