title: Development of pharmacotherapies for drug addiction: a Rosetta stone approach.
abstract: Current pharmacotherapies for addiction represent opportunities for facilitating treatment and are forming a foundation for evaluating new medications. Furthermore, validated animal models of addiction and a surge in understanding of neurocircuitry and neuropharmacological mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of addiction - such as the neuroadaptive changes that account for the transition to dependence and the vulnerability to relapse - have provided numerous potential therapeutic targets. Here, we emphasize a 'Rosetta Stone approach', whereby existing pharmacotherapies for addiction are used to validate and improve animal and human laboratory models to identify viable new treatment candidates. This approach will promote translational research and provide a heuristic framework for developing efficient and effective pharmacotherapies for addiction.
authors.affiliation: Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, SP30-2400 La Jolla, California 92037, USA. gkoob@scripps.edu
authors.forename: George F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Koob
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kenneth Lloyd
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Mason
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000378:metabolism; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations