BetterLife Pharma Inc. posts on their facebook an image captioned “who is BETR-001 for?”

The real answer is humans. Yet BetterLife contracts Nucro-Technics to conduct it’s tests on dogs.

It’s difficult to call this “groundbreaking” human neurological research when a dog can never tell researchers what a migraine, headache, altered perception, or neurological side effect actually feels like to a human. Dogs and humans share biological similarities, but they are not interchangeable neurological models. And no animal study can establish whether a drug will actually be safe, effective, or beneficial in humans.

The question shouldn’t just be “Can we test this drug on a dog?” It should be: “What can testing this drug on a dog actually tell us about the human being who will ultimately take it?”