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Rat park is highly illuminating in this conversation, and suggests that drug addiction is just a symptom. When people (or animals) are forced into a life of soc
by bonniemuffin 10y ago
Rat park is highly illuminating in this conversation, and suggests that drug addiction is just a symptom. When people (or animals) are forced into a life of social and cultural isolation, drugs become the most appealing thing they have available. If we could find a way to give people a social/cultural support system that's more appealing than drugs, we might be able to reduce addiction without prohibition.
http://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/rat-park/148-addiction-the-view-from-rat-park http://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/rat-park/14...
- loeg 10y agoRat Park doesn't replicate. Don't read too much into it.