Tag: Mental Health
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Rat Park: What a Rat Experiment Can Teach Us About Addiction, Loneliness and Society
What if addiction is not only about the substance we consume, but also about the world we live in? In the late 1970s, a Canadian psychologist named Bruce K. Alexander began questioning one of the most common assumptions about addiction: that exposure to an addictive drug would almost inevitably lead to compulsive consumption. His experiment,…