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Title: Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction.
Authors: Gage, Suzanne H.; Sumnall, Harry R.
Abstract: The article explores a series of addiction studies undertaken in the late 1970s by researcher Bruce K. Alexander and colleagues at Simon Fraser University in Canada. The studies found that rats housed in enriched environments consumed less morphine than those in isolated cages. Other topics include how the studies became known as "Rat Park," follow-up studies related to the project and replication attempts that offered disparaging results.
Subjects: COMPULSIVE behavior; DRUG design; CLINICAL drug trials; MORPHINE; ORAL drug administration; PHARMACOLOGY; RATS; SELF medication; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL context; RESEARCH personnel
Publication: Addiction, 2019, Vol 114, Issue 5, p917
ISSN: 0965-2140
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1111/add.14481

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Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction.