Oral self-administration of pregabalin in a mouse model and the resulting drug addiction features.

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"The author expresses gratitude to Mashhour Alsufyani, Fahad Almutairi, Abdulbari Althobaiti, and Mohammed Alhazmi for their valuable assistance with the FST and TST. The author extends sincere appreciation to Jamjoom Pharmaceuticals for their generous supply of pregabalin. The author extends appreciation to the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Taif University for funding this study. Role of the Funding Source The author thanks the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Taif University for funding this work."