@article{614459,
      recid = {614459},
      author = {Hart, Carl L.},
      title = {High price : a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery  that challenges everything you know about drugs and society  /},
      publisher = {Harper,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {xii, 340 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school;  he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At  the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is  a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first  tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose  landmark, controversial research is redefining our  understanding of addiction. In this provocative and  eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of  self-discovery and weaves his past and present. Hart goes  beyond the hype of the antidrug movement as he examines the  relationship among drugs, pleasure, choice, and motivation,  both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new  light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and  explain why current policies are failing. Though Hart  escaped neighborhoods that were dominated by entrenched  poverty and the knot of problems associated with it, he has  not turned his back on his roots. Determined to make a  difference, he tirelessly applies his scientific research  to help save real lives. But balancing his former street  life with his achievements today has not been easy--a  struggle he reflects on publicly for the first time. A  powerful story of hope and change, of a scientist who has  dedicated his life to helping others, High Price will alter  the way we think about poverty, race, and addiction--and  how we can effect change."--Dust jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/614459},
}