Rat Park Experiment: How Social Connection Explains Addiction

from False Fact Fixed · host Randy Bock M.D. P.C.

The Rat Park experiment addiction study by Bruce Alexander challenged everything we thought we knew about drug addiction. In the 1950s, a twelve-year-old boy named Bruce Alexander read a Batman comic that would haunt him for decades. In it, criminals mercilessly beat a “junkie” while Batman stood by, waiting to catch them committing a more […]

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