High price : a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society / Carl Hart.
Hart, Carl L.
2013
QP353.4.H37 A3 2013 (Mapit)
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Title High price : a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society / Carl Hart.
Author Hart, Carl L.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780062015884 hardcover
0062015885 hardcover
Imprint New York, NY : Harper, c2013.
Language English
Description xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number QP353.4.H37 A3 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.298
Summary "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.
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Where I come from
Before and after
Big Mama
Sex education
Rap and rewards
Drugs and guns
Choices and chances
Basic training
"Home is where the hatred is"
The maze
Wyoming
Still just a nigga
The behavior of human subjects
Hitting home
The new crack
In search of salvation
Drug policy based on fact, not fiction.

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