Cocaine powder. (Photo courtesy of DEA, Wikipedia Commons)
“Controlled preclinical studies that utilize animal models have demonstrated that prior repeated exposure to cocaine enhances sexual motivation and behavior,” says the grant description posted by the NIH. “However, no parametric or systematic studies further investigating the basic mechanisms underlying this relationship have been conducted.
“The goal of the proposed experiments is to utilize an animal model whose sexual behavior system has been well-studied, Japanese quail,” the description says. “In addition to the benefits of using quail to study sexual behavior, the use of a visually-oriented species in studying drug effects may be of additional relevance to studying human drug addiction. We currently have preliminary evidence in male Japanese quail that preexposure to cocaine enhances sexual motivation. This finding ties in well with clinical observations that indicate that cocaine use in humans may increase sexual motivation, thereby increasing the likelihood of the occurrence of high-risk sexual behavior.”
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They should have studied gerbils.
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7 comments:
Look for a story next week about how an attorney representing the quail is filing a lawsuit claiming the numbers in this study are fraudulent, since it was the NIH staff, not the quail, that used all the blow. The staff gets loaded, the quail get a settlement check, and the tax payers get bent over. Again.
I got just two words for MY tax dollars going for this kind of "study".
Bull.
Shit.
What did the male japanese quail say to the female japanese quail?
"Have I got a stimulus package for you!"
Jus needs go down DC an axe de firs shniffa wut dat flake goin doo fo yoo
BOW said...
What did the male japanese quail say to the female japanese quail?
"Have I got a stimulus package for you!"
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