A qualitative and quantitative review of cocaine-induced craving: the phenomenon of priming.
Mahoney J.J., Kalechstein A.D., De La Garza R., Newton T.F.
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry: 31(3), April, 2007, p. 593-599.
Drug-induced craving is thought to play an important role in relapse occasioned by a “slip”, or an isolated use of a previously abused drug after a period of abstinence. Clinical experience suggests that acute exposure to cocaine elicits craving (“priming”). The intentions of this review are to provide a qualitative review of the literature as well as a more stringent quantitative review of the existence and presence of cocaine-induced priming effects.