Saturday, January 29, 2011

Monkey Addicts Story

Story title: Monkey Addicts Story

   A scientist conducted an experiment in which he made cocaine available to some monkeys. These monkeys could pull a lever in their cages to release a little cocaine into their feeding tray. Not surprisingly, the monkeys became addicted to the drug. As the experiment continued, the scientist found that if the addicted monkeys could get additional cocaine hits any time they wanted by just pulling the lever, all of them would overdose. They all ended up killing themselves.
    The scientist then tried another experiment with addicted monkeys. He began to withhold the fix when the monkey pulled the lever. Over and over these monkeys pulled the lever, trying to get cocaine. They continued to pull the lever not ten times, not a hundred times, or even a thousand times. Those addicted monkeys pulled it an average of 12,800 times!

As an application, a addiction is a powerful tools that can rule the lives of people that includes addiction to work, food, gambling or even sex, alcohol, or drugs. There are some that finally reach a point where they lose any hope of breaking free.

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