Excerpt from chapter 1 of The Chemical Carousel.
In the early 1990s, it was safe to say that Dr. Ting-Kai Li was in possession of the largest and most famous collection of alcoholic rats in the world.
Housed in a laboratory near Dr. Li’s office at Indiana University, the “P-line†of rodents were freely self-administering the body-weight equivalent of one bottle of whiskey a day for a 155-pound man; a blood alcohol concentration that would have gotten them arrested on any...
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