01-22-2015, 08:36 AM
(01-21-2015, 12:03 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:(01-21-2015, 11:56 AM)tvguy Wrote:(01-21-2015, 11:12 AM)solomon Wrote: I read about this experiment today. Seems relevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s (and published in 1980) by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Alexander's hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in laboratory rats exposed to it is attributable to their living conditions, and not to any addictive property of the drug itself. He told the Canadian Senate in 2001 that prior experiments in which laboratory rats were kept isolated in cramped metal cages, tethered to a self-injection apparatus, show only that "severely distressed animals, like severely distressed people, will relieve their distress pharmacologically if they can.
Rats who had been forced to consume morphine hydrochloride for 57 consecutive days were brought to Rat Park and given a choice between plain tap water and water laced with morphine. For the most part, they chose the plain water. "Nothing that we tried," Alexander wrote, "... produced anything that looked like addiction in rats that were housed in a reasonably normal environment." Control groups of rats isolated in small cages consumed much more morphine in this and several subsequent experiments.
Well there are a hell of a lot of drug addicted meth heads who live in Rural America.. the "heartland" who pretty much blow holes in your theory.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...Id=3805074
Soloman, I've provided the link, I'll leave it up to you to wax eloquent.
So, I guess Solomon is AWOL.
Back to you TVg. You want to respond to this? It's at least some data compare to your opinion that doesn't seem to come from any source other than your personal feelings.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...Id=3805074