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‘Rat Park’ –Stuart McMillen

You’ll never think about drug addiction the same way again after reading this comic.

What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.

This is so great. I’ve read about the Rat Park experiments but I still learned new things from this. It’s long but extremely important.

My only criticism is that it’s not about how you see the world, it’s what the world literally gives you. For example, my hometown is falling apart and unemployment and homelessness is on the rise, and so is the use of heroine. If we went to a UBI system and provided housing for people, then these people would probably have no reason to continue to use heroine.

^^^ Good addition. It’s nearly impossible not to see the world as a cage when the world is set up to put you at a disadvantage. When the rich are working as hard as they can to turn the world into a cage for the rest of us (those they don’t just want dead anyway).