Social interaction with an alcohol-intoxicated or cocaine-injected peer selectively alters social behaviors and drinking in adolescent male and female rats.

CONCLUSIONS: The present results are consistent and extend our previous work showing that social interaction with an alcohol-intoxicated peer selectively alters social behaviors and alcohol-drinking in adolescent rats. Females appear to be more sensitive to the elevating effects of social interaction on voluntary ethanol consumption.
PMID: 31585020 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - October 3, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Gamble DN, Josefson CC, Hennessey MK, Davis AM, Waters RC, Jones BN, Belton DM, Hall NI, Costen TJ, Kirstein CL, Maldonado-Devincci AM Tags: Alcohol Clin Exp Res Source Type: research