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Hari says, “If you had asked me what causes drug addiction at the start, I would have looked at you as if you were an idiot and said: “Drugs. Duh.” It’s not difficult to grasp. I thought I had seen it in my life. We can all explain it.”
He is talking about chemical hooks in drugs that cause our bodies to crave them. It is believed that these chemical hooks cause addiction.
This reference from the 1980s by Partnership for a Drug-Free America questions this thought entirely.
Although, in the 1970s, Bruce Alexander, passed professor of Psychology in Vancouver, noticed something about the experiments. All the rats were kept in empty cages and completely isolated. He decided to try the experiment again, but this time with much bigger cages, multiple rats, including a complete rat sanctuary. He called it Rat Park
And this is what happened. “The rats with robust lives didn’t like the drugged water. They mostly ignored it, consuming less than a quarter of the drugs than the isolated rats ingested. None of them died. While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment and companionship became addicted.
This whole quest for knowledge Hari took teaches us much more than how to help addicts. It shows us that we need to strengthen our current lifestyles and relationships.
“Professor Peter Cohen argues that human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. It’s how we get our satisfaction. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with anything we can find. He says we should stop talking about ‘addiction’ altogether, and instead call it ‘bonding.’ A heroin addict has bonded with heroin because they couldn’t successfully bond as fully with anything else.”
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Reading the entire story, I believe there is some validity in this theory. What do you guys think?
Hari says, “If you had asked me what causes drug addiction at the start, I would have looked at you as if you were an idiot and said: “Drugs. Duh.” It’s not difficult to grasp. I thought I had seen it in my life. We can all explain it.”
He is talking about chemical hooks in drugs that cause our bodies to crave them. It is believed that these chemical hooks cause addiction.
This reference from the 1980s by Partnership for a Drug-Free America questions this thought entirely.
Although, in the 1970s, Bruce Alexander, passed professor of Psychology in Vancouver, noticed something about the experiments. All the rats were kept in empty cages and completely isolated. He decided to try the experiment again, but this time with much bigger cages, multiple rats, including a complete rat sanctuary. He called it Rat Park
And this is what happened. “The rats with robust lives didn’t like the drugged water. They mostly ignored it, consuming less than a quarter of the drugs than the isolated rats ingested. None of them died. While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment and companionship became addicted.
This whole quest for knowledge Hari took teaches us much more than how to help addicts. It shows us that we need to strengthen our current lifestyles and relationships.
“Professor Peter Cohen argues that human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. It’s how we get our satisfaction. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with anything we can find. He says we should stop talking about ‘addiction’ altogether, and instead call it ‘bonding.’ A heroin addict has bonded with heroin because they couldn’t successfully bond as fully with anything else.”
FULL ARTICLE AT SITE
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Reading the entire story, I believe there is some validity in this theory. What do you guys think?
