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Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2014 Sep 9;232(5):871–883. doi: 10.1007/s00213-014-3721-0

Table 2.

Participant- and observer-ratings and performance measures excluding participant-ratings specific measures to abuse potential

Outcome Measure Placebo Inhaled Alprazolam
Oral Alprazolam
Relative Potency*
0 0.5 mg 1 mg 2 mg 1 mg 2 mg 4 mg
Participant-Rated Effects
 Sedation (Peak)** 7.36 (4.01) 6.21 (1.49)a 13.86 (3.26)b 16.29 (2.49)b 12.36 (2.91)a,b 18.21 (2.97)b 18.93 (3.10)b 0.96 (0.21–1.90)
Observer Rated Effects***
 Drug Strength (Peak) 0.71 (0.34) 1.14 (0.23)a 1.71 (0.27)a,b 2.14 (0.25)b,c 1.07 (0.27)a 2.00 (0.26)b,c 2.57 (0.29)c 1.58 (0.83–2.66)
 Locomotor Relaxation (Peak) 0.21 (0.15) 0.21 (0.11)a 0.50 (0.25)a,b 1.00 (0.23)b,c 0.29 (0.13)a 1.00 (0.26)b,c 1.50 (0.25)c --
 Non-locomotor Relaxation (Peak) 0.21 (0.15) 0.14 (0.10)a 0.57 (0.25)a,b 0.86 (0.27)b,c 0.29 (0.13)a,d 1.00 (0.23)b,c,e 1.43 (0.27)e --
 Confusion/Disorientation (Peak) 0.43 (0.25) 0.57 (0.17)a 0.79 (0.26)a,b 1.36 (0.25)b,c 0.64 (0.25)a 1.50 (0.34)c 2.00 (0.26)c 1.08 (0.49–1.78)
 Slurred Speech (Peak) 0.36 (0.25) 0.36 (0.17)a 0.57 (0.23)a,b 1.50 (0.23)c 0.43 (0.23)a,d 1.21 (0.30)c 1.71 (0.29)c --
 Posture (Peak) 0.36 (0.17) 0.21 (0.15)a 0.79 (0.26)b 0.93 (0.20)b 0.21 (0.15)a 0.93 (0.29)b 1.29 (0.22)b 1.54 (0.64–2.99)
 Sedation/Sleepiness (Peak) 1.50 (0.42) 1.93 (0.35)a,b 2.36 (0.29)a,c 2.93 (0.07)c 2.07 (0.37)a,d 2.64 (0.25)c,d 2.93 (0.07)c 1.62 (0.62–3.38)
Performance Measures
 Circular Lights Task (Peak) 69.57 (4.59) 69.29 (2.76)a 58.07 (5.72)a,b,c 51.79 (4.81)b,c 61.36 (4.44)a,b 48.57 (5.25)c,d 36.86 (5.21)d --
 Digit Symbol Substitution (Peak) 29.64 (4.02) 28.36 (3.24)a 18.86 (3.14)b 16.29 (3.61)b,c 21.93 (3.12)a,b 14.79 (3.64)b,d 8.93 (4.00)c,d --
 Word Recall (1st time point) 2.86 (0.61) 3.50 (0.67)a 1.29 (0.32)b 0.77 (0.53)b 3.50 (0.84)a 1.23 (0.30)b 0.86 (0.49)b na†††
 Words Recall (2nd time point)†† 3.86 (0.60) 3.07 (0.79)a 1.00 (0.35)b 1.07 (0.35)b 1.38 (0.51)b 0.54 (0.31)b 0.86 (0.71)b na†††

Data are mean scores with SEMs shown in parentheses (N=14); for placebo and drug conditions within a row, bold font indicates significant difference from placebo; for active doses, values not sharing a common letter are significantly different (Fisher’s LSD p<0.05)

*

Relative potency estimates for oral vs. inhaled alprazolam, with confidence limits in parentheses; absence of an estimate indicates that the validity criteria for that measure were not fulfilled

**

Sedation is a total score of the sum of items form the Subjective Effects Questionnaire (see Methods)

***

Data for Observer Rated Stimulation/Arousal was low across all conditions and not statistically significant

Word task encoding at the 1st time point occurred 70 minutes after oral capsules and 10 minutes after inhalation; recall occurred 10 minutes later

††

Word task encoding at the 2nd time point occurred 2 hours after oral capsules and 1 hour after inhalation; recall occurred 10 minutes later

†††

Relative potency could not be calculated due to missing data