What is happening?
Right this minute, behind closed doors, at the University of Minnesota,
primates are slowly dying in small steel cages, in pain and without
hope. For years on end they are held captive and continually subjected
to painful and frightening experiments, coldly referred to as "drug
studies."
Why is this happening?
Researchers torment these creatures in an attempt to find answers
to questions that they should be asking generations of addicts and
alcoholics, not non-human primates. The social and emotional causes
of addiction simply cannot be replicated in a laboratory amongst creatures
forced to live in completely unnatural environments who have been
forced into addiction.
Why are we here?
We are addicts, former addicts and people whose loved ones have struggled
with addiction - those for whose supposed benefit these unnecessary
and sadistic experiments are being performed. In other words, they
are torturing these beings in our name, but we are here to say "No
more".
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