Reps. Mace, Boyle Lead Letter re: Cocaine-Fueled Puppy Experiments Funded by Federal Government
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Boyle (D-S.C.) and Rep. Nancy Mace issued this statement after requesting more information fromDr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) on experiments involving injecting puppies with cocaine:
“As an animal lover and long-time animal rights supporter, I was really disturbed to hear about cruel cocaine-fueled experiments being conducted on six-month old puppies and paid for by our tax dollars,” said Rep. Nancy Mace.“This testing is inhumane, unnecessary and not to mention expensive. These experiments have cost taxpayers $2.5 million dollars. Even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)has stated it ‘does not mandate human drugs be studied in dogs.’ So, why are we doing this?”
“In the year 2022, surely we can find ways to obtain laboratory data that do not involve injecting puppies with cocaine,” said Congressman Boyle. “The methods currently utilized by NIDA are cruel and outdated, and are being conducted with taxpayer dollars. I am proud to help lead this effort with my House colleagues to fix this broken and unnecessary operating procedure at NIDA.”
From Rep. Mace’s op-ed with Justin Goodman published by the Washington Examiner:
“Details of NIAID’s puppy tests uncovered by the White Coat Waste Project are disturbing. Fauci’s division spent $1.68 million in taxpayer funds on experiments involving 44 beagle puppies as young as 6 months old. The puppies were force-fed experimental drugs before being killed and dissected. NIAID has admitted that the puppies’ vocal cords were barbarically cut in order to prevent them from barking in the lab.
“In other Fauci-funded experiments that have cost taxpayers over $5 million to date, puppies have been infested with hundreds of ticks by strapping capsules full of the insects to their bare skin to study an illness that’s already preventable and treatable. At the end of the tests, the beagles are killed, even though they’re healthy and could be adopted out…”
Background: According to government databases and documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, NIDA force-fed puppies an experimental drug, then injected them with cocaine in order to study the interaction between the two compounds. These tests ran from March 2020 until September 2021.