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Did rats start the drug war?

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Much of our shared understanding about drugs and addiction came from a series of studies done in the 1950s and 60s on lab rats. But a skeptical researcher has designed his own study that involves, well… essentially an amusement park for rats, and the surprising results may show that everything we think we know about addiction is all… wrong.

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