Comments on: Globalization of Addiction: the post-Rat Park research of Bruce Alexander

By: Drywalletl

Drywalletl — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:34:10 +0000

Europe, and in Ancient Russia

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:28:23 +0000

Thanks for the comic and this writeup. It lead me to read a few interesting articles on Alexander’s website, and I plan on checking out Globalisation of Addition.

By: Wayne Johnson PhD

Wayne Johnson PhD — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 04:24:20 +0000

Those rats in your experiments as well as rodents dogs and monkeys in other protocols want to live as much as you and I. They did not volunteer for the confinement nor for the drug taking which in my mind is Criminal.

By: Wende

Wende — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:00:40 +0000

Thank you! Ive believed these ideas for decades. Just never saw this research-Wonderful. We now can talk about solutions for people in the “cage” (isolation)- which I believe begins with trauma recovery. The problem is epidemic. I think part of the solution is teaching people to first connect with themselves…. Good luck. Wende Birtch LMHC

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By: W. Ben Hill

W. Ben Hill — Mon, 23 May 2016 22:44:59 +0000

Dr. Alexander,

I truly enjoyed most of your ideas and even played the segment for an addictions class that I do at Brigham Young University in Utah, US. The students loved it! I would love to interview you. I have order the book and look forward to reading it. I too would love to “murder” the disease model. There is much good in looking at the neurology of addiction but at the end of the day we have to deliver something therapeutic and helpful. Addiction is an riddle wrapped in an enigma.

Regards, Ben

By: Tim Noyce

Tim Noyce — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:14:05 +0000

Interesting interview – what Bruce Alexander does not mention is the addiction to hyper-stimulus in the form of highly processed low-value foods This is worth reading I think: https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city

By: wadih de fayad

wadih de fayad — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:32:23 +0000

Look great !

By: Rat Park drug experiment cartoon ? Stuart McMillen comics

Rat Park drug experiment cartoon ? Stuart McMillen comics — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:40:35 +0000

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By: JOE

JOE — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:16:32 +0000

i found some of your work,i understood totally as an lead up to a nite i was attacked earlier this week,

i compared,many factors over again after reading rat park then the lizard stimuli and found scary simularities

please take note and study for a cartoon idea

“the acceptance of anger but strate fear of rage”

i do not mean to spam when i send my friends your cartoons they are just that good. and the information inside is very useful intodays primal

urban jungle we call the streets for the understanding that the world is a very dangerous place and peopledecieve just for the love of it, always looking,every where,to corrupt,to disorientate and put the instant fear factor that most ppl just wont know wht to do

ask me my story and i just may telll,until then

respectfully yours,A.D.

By: NZFIEND

NZFIEND — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:08:46 +0000

Dude, you are totally freakin awesome for getting this to mainstream.

I once did some comics for a DRUG PROJECT in Wellington, NZ. They went unpublished, but were damn good looking. I think the story lines may have “offended” some people. Twenty years ago now. I have to learn to stick to one thing and not spread thinly over everything.

Now, I am off to create RAT PARK with added variables of CHRONIC PAIN rats and ADHD rats…

See you in fifty years.

Until then, a lot of people (end user / consumers) in trouble!

By: A bustle in the cage-row: the making of Rat Park addiction comic

A bustle in the cage-row: the making of Rat Park addiction comic — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:58:08 +0000

[…] It is clear that scientific accuracy is important to Bruce, and that he is not simply promoting Rat Park for personal glory. He recognises that the Rat Park experiments do not necessarily ‘prove’ anything regarding human drug addictions. After all, rats and rats, and people are people. Yet he sees the findings of Rat Park as consistent with his larger body of research into human addictions, which he assembled in his book The Globalization of Addiction. […]