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Tue, 03/01/2022 - 10:19 — TheCorsair00
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A forgotten experiment by a Canadian psychologist from the 1970's called Rat Park shows us that drug addiction is not really about drugs themselves - it's about the cages we live in.

Documentary

Languages
English (Original)

Director
Shawney Cohen

Producer
Rachel Browne

Writer
Shawney Cohen

Comments

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 14:21 — zoopenhoff

Highly recommend Johann Hari's appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience for more on rat park.

If you are interested in the mechanics of addiction, vital info. Or if you just want to understand how badly wrong the establishment is.

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 22:28 — TheCorsair00

It is very interesting. I had not heard of it before. I also did not realize Johann Hari had been on JRE and talked about drug addiction - although I did know he had a book about the war on drugs prior to his recent book 'Stolen Focus'.

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 09:57 — euxalot

fascinating, much obliged for sharing and the helpful comments... I'm looking forward to learning more

(though admittedly the title is off-putting at first... perhaps "rat utopia" might have been the way to go...)

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 10:22 — TheCorsair00

The general premise of the theory is pretty much explained right away in the first few minutes of the documentary. The rest are little stories about various country's issues with the war on drugs and drug addiction in general.

Rats in a small cage, isolated with nothing but water and/or morphine, largely would hit the morphine over and over again. Until they died, some of them. But rats in an elaborate fun-filled park took to the water more. The isolation of the cage is a metaphor for poor living conditions for humans as well...