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Is addiction uniquely human?

Nick Heather considers how much we can learn about human addiction from research with animals

nonhuman animal research, addiction, animal model of addiction, Rat Park

This article originates from a friendly e-mail dispute between me and a colleague, Dr Serge Ahmed of the University of Bordeaux. In a book he recently co-edited, Serge wrote a chapter (Ahmed 2018) that gives a fascinating history of ‘animal models’ of addiction — i.e. research set-ups involving nonhuman animals, such as chimpanzees, monkeys and rats, designed to throw light on the nature of addiction in humans.

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