rats alone in small cages, gave them drug-laced water, and watched them destroy themselves. The world concluded: drugs are irresistible, addiction is a brain disease, and addicts have no choice.
Then Bruce Alexander asked one simple question that changed everything — what if the cage was the real problem?
In this podcast, we go deep into Alexander’s legendary Rat Park experiment, the Vietnam War soldier data that shocked the US government, and the philosophy that sits beneath all of it. We explore what addiction actually is, why shame makes it worse, why the brain disease model is dangerously incomplete, and what real recovery looks like when we stop blaming the person and start examining the environment.
This is not a motivational podcast. This is a philosophical and scientific dismantling of one of the most misunderstood human experiences — addiction.
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