User: Chigliakus

Re:and addiction?

On: Pr0n's Effect On Society

"So what does this Rat Park Survey tell us? That rats don't like to drink morphine. It can't really tell us anything more, because they didn't provide an adequate control. If they had given the rats in cages morphine to drink it would have shown something, but they didn't they just gave it to them IV."

Are you sure you read the Wikipedia article?

"In an experiment called "The Seduction", the researchers put 16 lab rats into Rat Park and kept 16 others in standard cages. Because plain morphine is bitter, and rats have a sweet tooth, the researchers gave both sets of rats morphine-laced water with sugar added, just a little at first, with the sweetness increasing each day. Both rats also had plain tap water to choose from. The caged rats took to the morphine instantly, even with virtually no sweetener. But no matter how sweet the morphine became, the rats in Rat Park resisted it. They would try it occasionally -- with the females trying it more often than the males -- but invariably they showed a preference for the plain water. By the end of the experiment, the caged rats had consumed 16 times more morphine than the Rat Park rats. It was, writes Alexander, "a statistically significant finding." [11]"

So why would they need to add sweetener to the caged rats solution of it was being given intraveniously? There IS something to see here, and the fact that it was supressed by respected journals IS news as well. I was amazed and fascinated by the article, I had always taken drug-induced addiction as a truism, which is apparently what 'they' want. I think this very obviously warrants further research.