The article entitled "What You Can Learn From Drunk Monkeys" by Meredith Small (2002:48-51) suggests that monkeys and humans may have a lot more in common than you might expect when it comes to alcohol and its addictive properties. For the last 15 years, a psychologist named Dee Higley has been raising rhesus monkeys in hopes to find possible causes for chronic alcohol abuse. These causes of alcoholism may be similar to those of humans. There has been a long-term debate weather alcoholism should be considered a disease, an illness, or product of society that can be changed. …
