The Rat Park Addiction Experiment proved there’s both an existential and environmental component to addiction. Or didn’t it? Four decades later scientists are still disagreeing about the study’s findings. So we’re here to ask, once and for all: Could Rat Park really be a thing? The Rat Park Addiction Experiment Back in the late ’70s, Canadian psychologist Bruce Alexander and… Read More
To say it’s hard to quit drugs is like saying the earth is round. True, yes. But the statement nowhere near encompasses the enormity of that truth. Then again, if drugs were easy to quit we wouldn’t have addicts. And we most certainly wouldn’t need addiction treatment centers. But it’s not just hard to quit drugs; it’s one of the… Read More
