The Rat Park Experiment

A long forgotten experiment showed the profound impact that someone’s environment has on their possibility of becoming uncontrollably addicted to drugs.

The name of the experiment was “Rat Park”. The experiment hoped to show the effect that someones life and surroundings has on their level of drug use. The study sought to show how there are underlying psychological issues and environmental conditions that play a significant role in someones path to addiction.

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Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s (and published in 1980) by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

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