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Re:How the war on drugs creates violence by jacquesm on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:22AM (#10425194)
"Experiments have shown rats to forgo food to the point of starvation in order to work for brain stimulation or intravenous cocaine when both food and stimulation are offered concurrently for a limited time each day."

From:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward

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Re:How the war on drugs creates violence by omurphyevans on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:08AM (#10425931)
When given positive other life experiences, rats do not prefer cocaine to food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

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Re:How the war on drugs creates violence by user_0001 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:09PM (#10426400)
Rats imprisoned in a cage in a laboratory with no chance of escape prefer to numb them selves with non-stop IV high quality cocaine where possible.

So would I probably.

Rats living freely in their natural habit - probably different story

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Re:How the war on drugs creates violence by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:13AM (#10425977)
The quote I cited was about heroin in particular; I don't know the state of anti-cocaine methods and the article doesn't go into it. It only states that apparently we have a perfectly good method of curing heroin addiction that's not being used for pretty stupid reasons.
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