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Carl Hart High Price Pdf File. Spencer Museum of Art. Carl Hart High Price Pdf Diffusers. Frederick Carlton 'Carl' Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10. HIGH PRICE: A Neuroscientists Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society By Dr. Carl Hart Prologue The paradox of education is precisely thisthat as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Over 40 years ago President Richard Nixon declared war on 'public enemy No 1' in the US – drug abuse. Since then, aggressive US anti-drug policies have continued unabated, with over $1 trillion spent on law enforcement and over 45 million people arrested on drugs charges. However, the numbers remain relatively unchanged, with over 20 million users of illegal drugs in the US today. Many voices on the international stage are starting to speak out against not only the failure of these policies but the harm they are causing. Yet the PR machine created around the war on drugs still exerts a huge influence over public opinion.
In High Price, Dr Carl Hart joins the growing number of professionals breaking with conventional thinking as he debunks myths and misconceptions associated with illegal drugs. Hart brings two very different but complementary perspectives to the debate: his experience of growing up in a poor African-American community in Miami, and his scientific learning as a neuroscientist studying the effects of drugs. Although the two are not always joined seamlessly, they give him a rare insight into the often deep misunderstanding of illegal drugs, with which he attempts to turn sensationalist, stereotypical views on their head.
By telling his own life story, Hart gives us a fascinating insight into the cultural mores of his community, growing up on the streets, and the racism he has faced throughout his life. Now a distinguished scientist, he reflects on his childhood with a new understanding, applying his scientific knowledge to reassess the path that led him to a career in academia, while avoiding the circle of drugs, addiction and prison in which many of his family and friends got caught up.
Hart unravels the common perception that drugs and drug addiction are the cause of many of society's problems. While he doesn't argue that illegal drugs have no negative effects, he takes the reader through his journey of discovery: that the pharmacology of the drugs themselves is not the cause of our social ills – rather, drugs are the symptoms of a broken society, masking the underlying issues of unemployment, lack of education, poverty, racism, and despair. He argues that anti-drug policies are causing more harm than the drugs themselves, and are directly marginalising black people, poor communities and other minority groups.
He has seen this first hand, growing up, and his experiences are backed up by staggering statistics – that black people are up to five times more likely to be arrested than white people on drugs charges, and over 10 times more likely to be sent to prison for drugs offences, despite the fact that white and black people use drugs at similar rates.
Hart doesn't simply look at the problem in terms of race, he also discusses the role that class plays in all of this. He challenges the stereotype of a drug user, emphasising how an overwhelming majority of drug users are not poor addicts: around 90% are casual users from a range of backgrounds who control and manage their drug use so it is not problematic. Yet these are not the voices we generally hear about in the media, from the government or in drug education.
Through his enlightening description of the 'Rat Park' experiment of the 1970s, Hart details how rats in a social, enriched and engaging environment self-administer morphine on offer in their cages at far lower rates than rats kept in solitary and desolate cages with no alternatives on offer. Hart follows this idea in his own work with people, questioning accepted views on addiction; and as his drug users often choose financial or other rewards over doses of drugs, he challenges the idea that addiction is the inevitable consequence of drug use, but rather an attractive distraction for those without preferable alternatives. For those growing up in poverty, with limited support, and little to lose, it is their social environment which provides the conditions for addiction to take hold.
Through the details of his lab experiments with drug users, knitted with his personal first-hand experiences, Hart adds his voice to the argument for an end to the punitive war on drugs and a move towards policies based on hard evidence and human rights rather than sensationalism and irrational fear. It is a brave move forward for the debate.
Rachel Seifert directed the documentary Cocaine Unwrapped, and is a reporter and producer for Channel 4 News
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Not the book you're looking for? Preview — High Price by Carl Hart 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—Columb...more
 Published June 11th 2013 by Harper 
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Oct 27, 2016P-eggy rated it really liked it Shelves: biography-true-story, reviewed, 2016-150-reviews, 2016-read, medicine-science
'I have to make sure I don't engage in conversations with people who don't abide by the rules of evidence.' Dr. Carl Hart, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University (and eye candy, which is never a bad thing).
Dr. Hart has written a dual-subject book. Part of it is his biography, of how he grew up in a poor, culturally-impoverished, abusive home in Miami and lived the life of the hood but managed to avoid crime, addiction and became a scientist. He isn't tooting his own horn,...more
Pdf High Price Carl Hart ReviewOverall, I appreciate the story, and the point Dr. Hart is getting at about research and drug policy. What I wanted was less memoir and more critical commentary. The two mostly worked together, but this book really needed tighter editing; it didn't come together for me until about two-thirds of the way through.
Side note: I used to work in the pharmaceutical industry. I left for a variety of reasons including ethical concerns about marketing. So I was sort of shocked to see an image of Dr. Hart p...more
Aug 16, 2013Glennchuck rated it really liked it
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 better for me. By the time he got to the science that has transformed his own ideas about how we mishandle drug use/abuse in America, I was completely on board. The science wasn't too dense for me, a non-...more
Apr 23, 2013Riya rated it really liked it
Before I begin my review of this book, I want to mention that I was provided with a free advanced copy of this book by Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. This book will be released June 11th of this year. The digital copy of this book that I read had the title of 'High Price' while on Goodreads it is called 'The Pleasure Paradox'; both books have the same cover but I am not sure what the official title will be once it is published.
My rating:4.5 out of 5 stars.
My summary of the book: Ca...more
Jan 13, 2018Lauren  rated it really liked it Shelves: drugs-substances, culture, medicine, sociology-issues, health, hoopla-rentals, audiobooks, neuroscience
Dr. Hart is a brilliant person with both real world knowledge, and years of clinical and scholarly research to bolster his research.
This book was largely a memoir of his childhood and youth in Miami, his education, and his research in neuroscience and the effects of drugs on the brain. This book, written a few years ago now, could easily have a follow up with more information on his research projects and his activism and advocacy.

Updated 11/2016: The thing that most annoys me about this book, isn't actually the book, but the reviews that say it's not good enough because it's a memoir. Yes, it IS a memoir (as it clearly says) but it is also a book about race, drugs and drug policy. People who are reviewing the book have had a tendency to assume the pages should be filled with more evidence and science. That's a mistake. The author has worked hard to indicate that the book is in no way a scientific journal article. 
This bo...more
Apr 08, 2018Maryam rated it really liked it
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 he was good in math but never cared for, how in those areas education was known as a burden for black people and the only thing aside from drug was sport and he chose Basketball. He believe it was pu...more
Dr. Hart claims we need to calm the fuck down about crack and meth (in other words, de-stigmatize recreational drug use). Using drugs occasionally doesn't necessarily produce a non-functioning unproductive member of society. 
It's a common misconception that once you start using a 'hard drug', you will become instantly addicted. Hart proves this isn't so. In Hart's research, he has also debunked another myth-- that occasional use of drugs destroys brain cells and lowers cognitive function. 
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Oct 13, 2014Todd rated it liked it
Well, this didn't challenge everything I know about drugs and society.. The authors story was interesting, however, Dr. hart's battle of being addicted to being cool was the biggest challenge of the story as far as I could see. 
Jul 21, 2017Anna rated it liked it
I will forever think about drugs, addiction and poverty in a different way. I really enjoyed the memoir part of the book, and although I don't think I would really like the author, and I certainly would not have liked him as a young man, he makes his point very convincingly when he talks about the potential decriminalization (as opposed to legalization) of drugs. 
Apr 18, 2015Dominick Quartuccio rated it it was amazing
Did you know that crack cocaine and powder cocaine are chemically the same drug?
As are Meth and the prescription drug Adderall?
Then why are crack cocaine and meth believed to be such horrifyingly devastating drugs, while cocaine and Adderall are often seen as recreational drugs of high society?
Dr. Carl Hart enlightened me to these questions in High Price.
High Price is a book with many layers:
- A scientific assault on what we've been conditioned to believe about drugs. While Dr. Hart does not min...more
Jan 06, 2014Angela rated it liked it
I really enjoyed this eye opening book. In this memoir laced with scientific discovery, Dr. Hart demonstrates a lot of the ideas we have been sold in the war on drugs culture we inhabit. He talks about race and how our views on drugs, the media coverage, and the scientific ignorance about them have all lead to a social construct that devastates communities. In his unique perspective, in which he tackles the role of race in science and drug perceptions based on his personally lived story and his...more
This is an autobiography of an African-American who grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Miami and, as a consequence of fortuitous opportunities, peculiar decision-making and athletic and intellectual ability, became a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University. He combines this latter credential with his background to make a statement about the foolishness of the War on Drugs. The book is a pleasant read.
The author was interviewed on Book TV. It was that interview which induced me t...more
Dr. Hart's persuasively argued memoir delivers. I have been having serious doubts about the 'War on Drugs' and I have always been outraged by sentencing disparities. Hart demonstrates that the drug narrative we've been listening to for decades is supported neither by science nor by his own experience growing up in a community disproportionately affected by drug policy. While I did not find his writing style to be as elegant as my mother did (she was in raptures)he wrote competently and accessibl...more
This book does have some truly interesting content and observations on the correlations between race and drug culture. I have found myself thinking often about the very (now) obvious message. The issue is that I wanted it presented in much less of an auto-biographical (and opinionated) way. I think I'll be looking for some essays written by Carl Hart instead of completing this book. I read through most of it but found myself quickly skimming through pages that seemed to talk about small anecdote...more
Jul 22, 2013Tori Miller rated it it was ok Shelves: drugs, memoir, read-in-my-30s, kindle, read-in-2013
This book really pissed me off. I loved Dr. Hart's segments in The House I Live In, and I was really looking forward to reading this book. I think my views are extremely close to his views, but I felt like he was pushing an agenda too hard. The book felt manipulative to me. It also came across like he was talking down to the reader. I didn't realize that so much of the book was going to be his personal story. Some of his research results seemed too oversimplified, and I wish he had discussed the...more
Loved Hart's memoir-cum-drug scientific book. The research here is sound and employs the oft-argued scientific method (will we ever evolve as a species, collectively?) Also, I loved the struggle from the hood to the lab, great inspiration for anyone who starts out in the trailers of sub-continuation public schooling. I related because I too occupied those same trailers when I was a confused adolescent. Now, I teach at an Ivy League school, despite what the naysayers proselytized. From that persp...more
Jul 18, 2018 Sarah Lumos rated it really liked it Shelves: powerful, adult, read-2018, memoir, gave-me-the-feels, neuroscience, made-me-think-about-life, audio-books, social-work, non-fiction
 'Instead, the adults around us saw school as a quest for a certificate, a stamp of approval you could show around later in life. Rather than valuing the process of education itself and the essential critical thinking skills that can be gained from it, they saw school as a means to an end.' 
This book really did change my perspective on drugs and society. Since I grew up in a religious family that prohibited drugs and alcohol, I was pretty ignorant about drug addiction. Dr. Hart made me realize...more
i think this would have been four stars to someone unfamiliar with the misinformation surrounding various drugs and drug policy. i was left wanting more clear information from the authors own studies. biggest gripe is feeling like a lot of things were repeated rather than going deeper. still a good book and this would be a great book to get someone started on understanding how mislead we are on the true nature and dangers of drugs.
Jun 22, 2015Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition
In this fascinating memoir/science book/political call to action, neuroscientist Carl Hart tells his story of growing up in a poor part of Miami with a father and mother who split up early and friends who later lapsed into the drug trade and other dead end lives.
He originally thought he might become a youth counselor, but his own experiences with drugs and the impact he thought they were making on his hometown led him into scientific research, often the lone black in the labs he worked in. 
Over...more
Jul 19, 2016Amanda rated it it was amazing
High Price is a brilliantly written memoir that will challenge everything you think you know about race, drugs, crime, and even academia.
Dr. Carl Hart began life in inner-city Miami, one of eight siblings raised by his mother and grandmothers. He did not take school seriously and did the bare minimum in order to participate in football and basketball. Upon graduation, he joined the Air Force, and his life began a long journey of challenges that ultimately led him to become an accomplished neuros...more
May 04, 2014Morgan Blackledge rated it it was amazing
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 lukewarm reviews was equally odd for me. Did we read the same book? The answer must be yes. So I'm left to conclude that the book is particularly resonant with me for some very personal reasons. 
As a...more
Incredibly well-constructed and insightful. Hart merges a discussion of the clinally-proven psychological effect of street drugs (much of which he has conducted) with his own story coming from an impoverished background in Florida, going into the armed forces, and going on to college, grad school, and eventually becoming a tenured professor at Columbia. Professor Hart makes abundantly clear that the effect of (often racist) drug policy and enforcement decisions has had a much more negative impac...more
Sep 18, 2013Laura rated it really liked itPdf High Price Carl Hart Lyrics Shelves: nonfiction, memoirs, science, sociology, addiction
I know less now than I did when I started the book, and that it's a good thing. I no longer 'know' that meth is particularly destructive to the brain. (Studies with that conclusion, were on animals under much higher doses than humans use.) Many of the things we 'know' about the dangers of drugs simply are not borne out by facts.
Do people become addicted and experience problems? Yes, but putting users in the criminal justice system doesn't help. Should drugs be legalized? Not necessarily, but pos...more
Nov 24, 2017Mary Loucks-Cummings rated it it was ok
Toward the beginning stages of the publishing process of High Price, an editor dropped the ball in a big way. Someone should've said, 'Dr. Price, you're trying to tell two completely different stories here: your memoir of growing up and out of the projects in Florida to eventually become a respected scientist and professor, and an unrelated story about drugs, drug policy, and addiction.' How in the world did this book get published like this? Dr. Price has a good narrative to tell about his rise...more
Dr. Carl Hart explains the current state of drug research by providing his life story has a background. As a reader, we receive both an autobiography sprinkled with summaries and commentaries of research articles relevant to drug abuse and drug addiction. For example, the Olds and Milner seminal articles are discussed in the context of their findings but also limitations. Overall, I throughly enjoyed the SCIENTIFIC, historical, social, and personal approach taken by Dr. Hart to explain how drugs...more
JD Vance should read this book. Actually, it would be interesting if the two of them could debate / come to some sort of consensus and then write another book considering the opioid epidemic. 
There is some overlap between their thinking - role models matter, fulfilling relationships pull you up and the military can be helpful in transitioning underprivileged youth into the upper echelons of American society.
Major difference – It's not the entitlements that keep people down Vance!! For Hart, it's...more
V good, just disappointed that The real discussion about his research on drug use didn't come in to play until about the last hundred or so pages of the book. I was reading in an interview that he had specifically written this book because he wanted to dispel myths about drug use. I honestly would've preferred if this entire book had simply focused on that instead of his personal experience. Whoever I see that the two are intertwined. 
Oct 12, 2014Clifford rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Although there was more memoir here than I really wanted to read, it did help to put the drug research and policy elements in perspective. The conclusions of the book are surprising to me, and they have the potential to bring great changes to American criminal laws if they do contribute to a serious discussion of decriminalization. 
Jun 25, 2016Heidi Busch rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I think this book is an interesting take on a different subject in neuroscience. I appreciated that the author explained his own research to give logic to his argument. I think that this book is highly readable for the layman and may help to explain why some people become addicted to drugs and others do not. 
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