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High price : a neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society / Carl Hart.
Van Pelt Library QP353.4.H37 A3 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Carl L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hart, Carl L.
- Hart, Carl L--Childhood and youth.
- Hart, Carl L--Drug use.
- Neuroscientists--United States--Biography.
- Neuroscientists.
- Ex-drug addicts--United States--Biography.
- Ex-drug addicts.
- Drugs of abuse--Physiological effect.
- Drugs of abuse.
- Drug abuse--Social aspects.
- Drug abuse.
- Drug addicts--Psychology.
- Drug addicts.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Drug abuse--United States.
- United States.
- Substance-Related Disorders--rehabilitation.
- Neurosciences.
- Drug Users--psychology.
- Narcotics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Substance-Related Disorders--rehabilitation.
- Neurosciences.
- Drug Users--psychology.
- Narcotics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
- 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."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-340).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780062015884
- 0062015885
- OCLC:
- 813286601
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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