Compulsive Seekers: Our take. Two Clinicians’ Perspective on a New Animal Model of Addiction

The rat model of alcohol seeking described by Giuliano and colleagues (this issue)—we will refer to it as the Giuliano model—is part of a welcome trend toward animal models that incorporate two cardinal features of human addiction, which are as follows: (a) the use of drugs despite an unfavorable ratio of benefits to harms and (b) the fact that only a minority of drug users become addicted