Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction.

Gage, SH and Sumnall, H (2018) Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction. Addiction. ISSN 0965-2140

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Abstract

‘Rat Park’ is the name given to a series of studies undertaken in the late 1970s by Bruce K. Alexander and colleagues. They found that rats housed in enriched environments consumed less morphine solution than those in isolated cages, when rats were pre‐exposed to morphine, naive to morphine, and whether they had spent their early life in isolation or in enriched housing. The measured conclusions from the authors at the time have become somewhat lost in translation.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gage, S. H., and Sumnall, H. R. (2018) Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction. Addiction,, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14481. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	11 Medical And Health Sciences, 17 Psychology And Cognitive Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine > RA0440 Study and Teaching. Research
Divisions:	Public and Allied Health
Publisher:	Wiley
Related URLs:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30367729
Date of acceptance:	15 October 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access:	27 October 2019
Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2018 12:32
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2023 15:24
DOI or ID number:	10.1111/add.14481
URI:	https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/9728

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