Lower-status monkeys more likely to opt for cocaine over food

[alexmst]

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc...line=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True

CBC News

Lower-status monkeys more likely to opt for cocaine over food: study

07/04/2008 2:44:42 PM

CBC News
Monkeys of a lower social standing are more likely to choose cocaine over food in stressful situations than their higher status counterparts, a new study from the U.S. suggests.


The study, presented Sunday at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego, also found that improving the monkeys' quality of life diminished cocaine use, a result with implications for the treatment of drug abuse in humans.

"We believe this type of research can be used to identify better treatment strategies, including providing environmental enrichment, that may affect the likelihood of abusing drugs," said lead researcher Michael Nader in a news release.

"We think that reducing drug use in people is going to require changes in their environment - things that are enriching, such as alternative activities," he elaborated in an e-mail to CBC News on Monday.

 

[Aardvark154]

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc...line=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True

CBC News

Lower-status monkeys more likely to opt for cocaine over food: study

07/04/2008 2:44:42 PM

CBC News
Monkeys of a lower social standing are more likely to choose cocaine over food in stressful situations than their higher status counterparts, a new study from the U.S. suggests.


The study, presented Sunday at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego, also found that improving the monkeys' quality of life diminished cocaine use, a result with implications for the treatment of drug abuse in humans.

"We believe this type of research can be used to identify better treatment strategies, including providing environmental enrichment, that may affect the likelihood of abusing drugs," said lead researcher Michael Nader in a news release.

"We think that reducing drug use in people is going to require changes in their environment - things that are enriching, such as alternative activities," he elaborated in an e-mail to CBC News on Monday.

One of the more interesting articles posted in a while.

 

[cypherpunk]

These same monkeys will also pay to see porn with monkeys with higher social status. You can get all kinds of insight from our cousins.

 

[Rufus Doofus]

It will be a dangerous world out there when cocaine snorting monkeys have access to handguns!

 

[Esco!]

It will be a dangerous world out there when cocaine snorting monkeys have access to handguns!

Guns dont kill people, its monkeys with guns that kill people

 

[Aardvark154]

These same monkeys will also pay to see porn with monkeys with higher social status. You can get all kinds of insight from our cousins.

And yet in humans seemingly it's the opposite. I don't personally know any porn stars - but from interviews, television interviews etc. . . most SPs in Toronto or Montreal or Ville de Québec in my experience have better personalities, seemingly greater intelligence, and more drive than the porn stars.

 

[Esco!]

I just think the higher-status monkeys knew bad coke when they saw it

That shit was stepped on!!

 

[Oohlalaladies]

This doesn't surprise me.

 

[Esco!]

It will be a dangerous world out there when cocaine snorting monkeys have access to handguns!

http://www.abum.com/64378/Carpet-Monkey.html

 

[Ben Hogan]

Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!

 

[longduck]

Wow.

This thread went in a direction I didn't expect.

 

[anon1]

Such findings don't necessarily tranfer directly into the human realm.
Humans have a more complex brain and culture, but it's a good starting point.

 

[longlegs12]

It will be a dangerous world out there when cocaine snorting monkeys have access to handguns!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my god I think I peed my pants....

 

[Esco!]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my god I think I peed my pants....

Laugh now woman, but you wont think its so funny when they show up at your door