Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00218)

Hallo Andrew and all,

My views are:

Did the study tell anything about the childhood of the rats
and how old they were - when participating ?
(smile...)

from
M. Sufilight

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From: "Andrew Smith" <aupanishad@msn.com>
To: <ham>; <gnosis284@yahoogroups.com>; "Joanna Cline"
<Joanna.Cline@tmng.com>; <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: ham,Theos-World The" French Connection" Redux


> In the French study, rats poked their pointy noses through holes in
their cages to trigger injections of cocaine. They were allowed access to
the cocaine for three months, much longer than the 10- to 30-day drug-use
studies normally done with animals.
> Compulsive drug-seeking even in the face of bad consequences is a
measure of human addiction. So the researchers devised ways to measure that
in animals: routinely cutting off the drug supply and measuring the rats'
persistence at poking the supply trigger anyway, seeing how hard they worked
to get the drug and noting whether they gave up when their feet were
shocked.
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> Yours Fraternally,
> Andy
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