High Price, Carl Hart
High Price, Carl Hart
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High Price
A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

Author: Carl Hart

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/17/2013


Synopsis

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction.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.

About Carl Hart

Carl Hart is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a research scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute; a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse; and on the board of directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the Drug Policy Alliance. A native of Miami, Florida, he lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dagio_maya on September 23, 2018

Titoli di giornale roboanti che provocano l’isteria collettiva. Organizzazioni governative che si compattano contro il Mostro Droga diffondendo campagne che allarmano facendone terrorismo psicologico. Ecco che lo Stato stesso diventa spacciatore e quello che smercia è una valanga di dati pompati, di......more

Goodreads review by Glennchuck on November 12, 2013

The first 50 pages or so were pretty stiff and I didn't think I'd finish this one. But then, every other page or so, he'd take one of my preconceptions about drugs, behavior, or society and smash it into teeny tiny bits. Also, as he progressed through his own amazing life story, the book flowed bett......more

Goodreads review by Maryam on April 09, 2018

I read this book for a local book club and well it made think of many facts that I believed so strongly in. This book has two parts, at first Dr. Hart talks about his past, him growing up in a black poor neighborhood in Miami, Florida where there were always violence, drugs and poverty. He talks how......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on May 05, 2014

Once and a while a book reaches into your heart. For me, this is one of those. This book resonated with me in a way that felt uncanny, almost as if the author was speaking directly to me. For reasons I can't easily describe, this book moved me to tears again and again. Reading some of the negative and......more