Abstract
Repeated exposure to stimulant drugs, such as amphetamine, induces sensitization to their behavioral activating effects. It is commonly assumed that behavioral sensitization is expressed in the environment explicitly paired with the drug but not in a different environment explicitly unpaired with the drug. The experiments reported here show that this assumption is incorrect. It was found that sensitization was expressed in an environment explicitly unpaired with amphetamine, but imbued with positive affective valence by its association with a natural reward, oral sucrose. These results suggest that the affective valence of the environment in which the drug is administered plays a decisive role in the expression of drug effects, regardless of any previous association of that environment with the drug.
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