Action Alert: Help End Animal Drug Experiments
 Can shocking mice through their feet for 15 minutes at a time
help us learn whether marital stress can lead to alcoholism? Surprisingly
enough, millions of tax dollars are being spent on “stressing” animals, giving
them drugs and alcohol, and infecting them with diseases—all
to study substance abuse problems that are unique to the human
species.
Many scientists agree that such studies are not productive. Researchers
have many superior alternatives to animal experiments when studying
substance abuse in humans. Neuropsychological testing devices and
CT scans have been used to identify brain changes, memory gaps,
and language deficits in drug-abusing humans. These types of problems
would never have been detected in an animal.
Please write to the directors of the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug
Abuse (NIDA) and ask them to shift their funding focus.
Nora Volkow, M.D.
Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 5213
Bethesda, MD 20892-9561
Ting-Kai Li, M.D.
Director
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
6000 Executive Boulevard - Willco Building
Bethesda, MD 20892-7003
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