Re: (OT) Dope-Smoking, Menstruating Monkey Study Got $3.6 Million in Tax Dollars

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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:18:04 -0500, NotMe wrote:


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"(CNSNews.com) - The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division
of the federal government¹s National Institutes of Health (NIH), has
spent $3,634,807 over the past decade funding research that involves
getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine
(METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including
during different phases of the female monkeys¹ menstrual cycles."

Sounds like something major should apply for. Free dope and get paid.
You could take the place of a monkey major, LOL

If you've even held a baby that was coming down from drug addiction
generated in the womb you'd not be so sanctimonious.

Sorry. Can't see what this has to do with getting mokeys high.

The research had to do with the effects of drugs on the metabolism and
physiology of monkeys. From what I could tell from the data this has
multiple uses including a determination of how drugs effect the fetus.
Given that monkey and human fetus have many parallels this is strong data
with multiple applications in the real and human world.

I have a special interest in this subject and in the related research as I
am a volunteer Gardian ad Litum in family court and with the state foster
program. A goodly number of my charges are kids who come to court with drug
problems. I have, personally, spent many a sleepless night trying to
comfort a child as they come down off of drugs.

If drug addicted babies are so common, why not just use them?

That was once an accepted practice in all parts of the world including the
good old USA. FWIW drug companies often use humans as test subjects in
areas were the ethics of the practice is questioned.

Since the life cycle of monkeys is much shorter than that of humans the
results can be extrapolated faster.

The process, in most cases, takes months and there are residual damages.
It
is only through such research can we have any hope of learning how to
deal
with these kids. BTW we will have to deal with their problems for
decades.



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