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Let's look at addictions. Let's take a common addiction like smoking, for example. Addictions are caused by chemical dependency on something, right? That was proven around about 100 years ago. What scientists did was they put a rat in a cage and they'd give it either water or water laced with a drug like cocaine or heroin to choose from. The rat would have both and, eventually, it started to prefer the drug and, eventually, become obsessed with the drug. It became addicted and eventually, it'd keep coming back until it overdosed and died. With repetition, they said, "There you go, it's scientifically proven these drugs are addictive, it's chemically addictive."
Only after a while, they started to ask questions like, for example, "how come all these people can go to hospital for sustained periods of time, be exposed to diamorphine, which is pure heroin, and when they get to discharged from hospital, very few of them end up being addicted?" If it's chemically addictive, how do you explain that?
The biggest concern arose during the Vietnam war where they found that up to 20% of the entire military was routinely using heroin to cope with the stress of having to kill people or be killed all day. Can't really blame them. They started freaking out thinking they're going to have this mass epidemic of returned soldiers all walking around drug addicted. But what they found was when they returned home, at least 95% of them just stopped taking it. Again, how does that make sense if it's chemically addictive?
Around about the '70s, psychologists like Bruce Alexander started looking at the psychology of a thing like addiction and he goes, "Hang on a second. Remember those original rat studies? See, if I was locked in a cage alone with nothing to do, I'd probably turn to drugs as well." He repeated the experiment. He changed it a bit, and called them the famous Rat Park Experiments.
In Rat Park, it was very similar, only he put a bunch of rats in together so now, they're interacting with each other. They got to interact. They got to connect with each other. But they've also got mazes, and balls, and slides, and things to do, so in other words, they're more engaged. They're keeping active. They're keeping busy, the way that nature intended. Only in Rat Park, they didn't really prefer the drug. In fact, there was no overdoses at all. They preferred the water. The conclusion was it's not just the chemical. It's also the cage, or in other words, the environment. If you would like to learn a little bit more about the rat park experiments and the psychological reasons behind many addictions, please download your FREE eBook above. If you would like to learn more and really start overcoming your own addictions and drug dependancy, you should grab the full book below, and if you are like most people and cant really be bothered reading you can listen to it by clicking on the link to the audio edition of 'The truth about addictions'.
Only after a while, they started to ask questions like, for example, "how come all these people can go to hospital for sustained periods of time, be exposed to diamorphine, which is pure heroin, and when they get to discharged from hospital, very few of them end up being addicted?" If it's chemically addictive, how do you explain that?
The biggest concern arose during the Vietnam war where they found that up to 20% of the entire military was routinely using heroin to cope with the stress of having to kill people or be killed all day. Can't really blame them. They started freaking out thinking they're going to have this mass epidemic of returned soldiers all walking around drug addicted. But what they found was when they returned home, at least 95% of them just stopped taking it. Again, how does that make sense if it's chemically addictive?
Around about the '70s, psychologists like Bruce Alexander started looking at the psychology of a thing like addiction and he goes, "Hang on a second. Remember those original rat studies? See, if I was locked in a cage alone with nothing to do, I'd probably turn to drugs as well." He repeated the experiment. He changed it a bit, and called them the famous Rat Park Experiments.
In Rat Park, it was very similar, only he put a bunch of rats in together so now, they're interacting with each other. They got to interact. They got to connect with each other. But they've also got mazes, and balls, and slides, and things to do, so in other words, they're more engaged. They're keeping active. They're keeping busy, the way that nature intended. Only in Rat Park, they didn't really prefer the drug. In fact, there was no overdoses at all. They preferred the water. The conclusion was it's not just the chemical. It's also the cage, or in other words, the environment. If you would like to learn a little bit more about the rat park experiments and the psychological reasons behind many addictions, please download your FREE eBook above. If you would like to learn more and really start overcoming your own addictions and drug dependancy, you should grab the full book below, and if you are like most people and cant really be bothered reading you can listen to it by clicking on the link to the audio edition of 'The truth about addictions'.
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