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"We’ve told you before that there really isn’t any evidence that animals consume mind-altering substances because they feel good to them. This makes it appear that the fondness for psychoactive drugs is, pretty...human. What is it about our species that makes us so attracted to these substances?"

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Sources:
Rodents
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2007.1673
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741108/
https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-still-spreading-bad-ideas-about-addiction?zd=1&zi=mhy2cxbh
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683998/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128122020000026
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567158/

Primates
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20800298_Voluntary_consumption_of_beverage_alcohol_by_Vervet_monkeys_Population_screening_descriptive_behavior_and_biochemical_measures [PDF]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/009130579390232I
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275104291_The_Drunken_Monkey_Why_We_Drink_and_Abuse_Alcohol_Robert_Dudley_Berkeley_University_of_California_Press_2014_154_pp [PDF]
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/44/4/295/800278
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http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?pid=S2011-20842016000200008&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en

Humans
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2007.1673
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871699001647

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