Thanks for your post! My current addiction is Monsters and cigs. gawd. Walked away from booze, coke, heeron, everything. But cigs? damn....i'm powerless. So I heard this yesterday on the radio. We all know about that addiction experiment with rats. Put a rat in a cage with 2 water bottles, one spring water, the other laced with coke. In every test, the rat preferers the coke-laced water, quickly became addicted, and drank himself to death within days. Then a researcher noticed the cage was empty but for the water choice. Just wires for a floor. Wires for sides. Wires for a ceiling. Basically, the definition of isolation and boredom. So he tried something different: He built a 2nd cage more like a rat paradise, filled with wheels, tunnels, food bits, everything a rat loves. And he added a bunch of other rats (his buddies). In THIS cage, not one rat became addicted. Most just completely ignored the coke-laced water. Not sure how this relates to human addictions, but there's probably a parallel somewhere.
It is amazing. Those are the rat park studies. Message is about the profound importance of the environment and connection, to others and meaningful activities & pursuits
I think you're right. The person talking about this said the way we humans treat others with an addiction, like ostracizing them, isolating them, often locking them up, is probably the opposite of what people really need. It's like putting a rat in an empty cage, with 2 water bottles.
TBH I would’ve guessed opiate addiction if I had to. The way Saleh answered about the issue, the fact that he just came off injury, and the history of olinemen especially. We didn’t hear of any accidents or police issues and a big thing like cancer they probably would have said something to begin with. So it was always down to addiction or some medical condition (mentally or physically)
It’s not really that unheard of for a football player coming off of injury - and especially the way Saleh answered he’s not getting into it would lead you to believe some kind of personal issue, but I guess we were all wrong lol I honestly had no clue so I didn’t speculate on it, but I don’t blame people for guessing that, it was just as likely as anything else
Toughen up princess. You recklessly (and unfairly) speculated that a guy you don’t even know was an addict. Reckless speculation from a veritable used rubber.
Nice try, lol. I am more than willing to have a respectful debate about it which won't be much of a contest, but if anyone would prefer to fight me on it instead be prepared to lose abysmally.
I always think of Ray Lucas. In case anyone has forgotten, league doctors were plying him and supplying him with ridiculous amounts in the beginning so he became physically dependent very quickly. He nearly took his own life and if he had, nobody would fucking be in jail.
