Everybody has heard of "the rat study" where all the rats do cocaine until death, simply by pressing a button.
What is often omitted is that those rats were deprived of their normal environments, and were thus "bored out of their gahd-damn minds," socially isolated.
A much better study is of the rat city, which showed that ONLY A SINGLE-DIGIT PERCENTAGE OF RATS would continue "pressing the cocaine button" when the study was perfomed in an area which allowed for ample "normal rat behavior," e.g. expansive cages with plenty of "rat fun" [food, territory, mates, playthings].
The latter study parallels (semi-well) to human populations that have opportunities [jobs, primarily; but functional IRL societies], where only a minority of people succumb to "drug addiction."
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Recommended drug policy reading:
Michael Pollen's "How to Change Your Mind"
Dr Gabriel Maté's "Chasing the Scream"
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I have lived speed-free 14 years, this Valentine's Day. All it took was leaving a toxic medical school environment.
What is often omitted is that those rats were deprived of their normal environments, and were thus "bored out of their gahd-damn minds," socially isolated.
A much better study is of the rat city, which showed that ONLY A SINGLE-DIGIT PERCENTAGE OF RATS would continue "pressing the cocaine button" when the study was perfomed in an area which allowed for ample "normal rat behavior," e.g. expansive cages with plenty of "rat fun" [food, territory, mates, playthings].
The latter study parallels (semi-well) to human populations that have opportunities [jobs, primarily; but functional IRL societies], where only a minority of people succumb to "drug addiction."
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Recommended drug policy reading:
Michael Pollen's "How to Change Your Mind"
Dr Gabriel Maté's "Chasing the Scream"
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I have lived speed-free 14 years, this Valentine's Day. All it took was leaving a toxic medical school environment.