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The Role of Environment in Addiction
In previous experiments, you put a rat in a cage where they were alone and you give them the option of water or water with heroin in it. There was little with no death rates to these rats from the heroin overdose. So it really demonstrated that the issue was not in the drug. Just like the issue is not necessarily in the drama, what was the circumstances that made them get attached to it? And we know that safe environments will create the circumstances that allow us the choices we will make or the voids we will or will not need to fill.