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newtothegame
06-10-2011, 03:27 AM
Is there anything our government wont spend money on???

Golden Hookah: Feds Spent $3.6 Million to Study Drug-Smoking, Menstruating Monkeys
Thursday, June 09, 2011
By Christopher Neefus (/source/74343)

/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/images/rhesus%20monkey-2-ap.jpg (/image/rhesus-monkey) Rhesus Monkey (AP photo/Renee Barth)




(CNSNews.com) - The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the federal government’s 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 monkeys’ menstrual cycles.

The study also uses “interventions” as “treatment models” for monkeys who have been taught to use drugs.

Precursor research on drug-using monkeys, also funded by NIDA, discovered that after smoking cocaine monkeys exhibited “dilated pupils and slightly agitated, hyperactive behavior”—which helped researchers conclude that the “physiological effects” of cocaine on monkeys “were similar to those reported in studies of human subjects.”


http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spent-36-million-research-studies-d

Ok, I can almost buy the reasoning of "testing" the drug to build better models for future treatments.
But here are a few questions...
1. Where is PETA??? lol
2. Ok a serious question...why not test on an actual drugged up addict? Wouldnt the results be "better" as an actual case study??

Did they think they would find monkeys (afetr doping them up) without dialated pupils? Without slightly agitated behaviors??

Our tax dollars hard at work!!!! :bang:

HUSKER55
06-10-2011, 08:19 AM
AND congress wants to know where to start making cuts.


are you smarter than a fifth grader?


nope! :D