• White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation reveals that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has wasted over $3.6M funding tests where monkeys’ skulls are cracked open, horseradish and other toxins are injected into their brains, and they are addicted to cocaine and forced to gamble for water
• The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have been squandering tax dollars on these primate experiments for at least 6 years
• In 2023, WCW first exposed these experiments and Sen. Rand Paul highlighted our findings in his government waste report
• The NIH is lagging behind other federal agencies in cutting its monkey business
• WCW is on a mission to get the NIH out of the animal testing business

For years, White Coat Waste Project has been leading efforts to find, expose, and defund cruel and wasteful government primate testing.  WCW’s campaigns and lobbying have shut down tax-funded monkey business and drastically reduced primate experiments at the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs to historic lows. 

Unfortunately, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) still hasn’t gotten the message. 

Last year, WCW first exposed a series of grotesque NIH-funded primate experiments at the University of Minnesota where monkeys are given brain damage and forced to gamble for access to water.  

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) highlighted WCW’s findings in his 2023 Festivus report, where he airs his grievances about wasteful taxpayer-funded programs.

WCW’s investigation of this NIH-funded lab revealed that university white coats were injecting horseradish and other toxins into monkeys’ brains to alter their cognitive function, depriving them of water, and strapping them into restraint chairs forcing them to gamble for a liquid reward.

This type of forced dehydration is not only cruel but dangerous to primates’ health—which is exactly why the University of Minnesota received a federal citation following a USDA inspection earlier this year.

Now, WCW’s ongoing investigation reveals that these sadistic casino nights are even more deranged than we initially thought.  

In addition to brain injections, water deprivation, and forced gambling, white coats are also getting monkeys addicted to cocaine.

Once white coats get the monkeys hooked, they set them up with an IV and encourage them to self-administer the highly addictive and extremely dangerous drug regularly.

Cocaine consumption can lead to severe consequences in monkeys—directly from the drug itself as well as from the severe withdrawal. Related symptoms include anxiety, lethargy, and aggression, which white coats claim are all “small dangers”.

Apparently, cocaine-fueled monkey casino nights are imperative to understanding how human beings make decisions, according to the NIH.

Not one, but TWO subagencies of the NIH are squandering American tax dollars to fund this torture. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have wasted over $3.6M in just six years on these experiments.

NIMH is the same NIH division that we exposed back in 2020 for giving monkeys brain damage by injecting acid into their brains, chaining them by the neck in tiny cages, and scaring them with toy snakes and spiders.

Is this how you want your money spent?  

Tell Congress and the NIH to immediately stop wasteful & cruel primate experimentation