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