In Amiens, alcoholic rats treated with ketamine and LSD – Liberation

To have its dose, the number 7 rat has almost gone mad. In just eight minutes, he pressed the lever 147 times. His reward: a mixture of 90 degrees and water alcohol, for a final concentration of 20 degrees. Either the equivalent of a GET 27. On the ground floor of the University Research Center of the University of Picardy-Jules-Verne, in Amiens (Somme), 400 rats are made alcohol before being treated using LSD, psilocybin (the active principle of hallucinogenic mushrooms) or Ketamine. Since 2019, scientists of the alcohol research group and pharmacospendances have explored the effects of these substances on Severe alcohol addiction In several preclinical trials (which precede the study on patients) called PSI-Alc, Rapsico, Adely or Papaud.

Blouse, Charlotte, surgical mask, hydroalcoholic gel, gloves … The meeting with the rodents of the pet store is done according to strict rules. No question of contaminating them or disturbing their balance. In their cages, rats can suck up, as desired, a bottle containing water or a container of alcohol. « But the rat metabolizes alcohol five to six times faster than us, so that is not enough to make them addicted. He is in truth