Consider the Mouse
By Gabriel Redel-Traub Published on December 6, 2019
The American species of the common house mouse (Mus musculus) does an odd thing when going through opioid withdrawal. It jumps involuntarily, rearing up on its hind legs and leaping 3-to-4 feet in the air. I was a spectator to this phenomenon this summer, while working at a research hospital in New York City.
On the bottom floor of the hospital is what doctors affectionately call the mouse house. Mice in the mouse house live an abnormally comfortable life—relative, at least, to the majority o...
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