#98: Rat Park & Other Drug Experiments

We humans have learned a lot about drugs from experimenting on rats. In this episode I discuss the findings of those experiments, and I show (yet again) that the war on drugs is designed in a way that ensures as many people as possible will struggle with addiction, and that their addictions will be as bad as they could possibly be. We couldn't design a less effective system if we tried (and I do in this episode). To read more about the mechanisms of dopamine's action and how dopamine aids i...