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39 - Gabor Mate

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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Rat Park, Stress Rats and Addiction

I think I was mixing up Ader with him, and that was the serendipitous aspect Well, Ader was the one with the saccharin Right. He certainly want to show that When you stress rats, their immune systems will be suppressed,. Their adrenal glands will be... ...imcharged because of overuse and they have ulcers in their stomachs right. Which brings us to Rat Park, fantastic research that was done here in Vancouver And these rats contributed the belief that drugs and themselves were addictive Yeah Whereas the ones who had good environments, you couldn't make them addictive if you tried yeah.

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