“It’s a fascinating combination of memoir and social science: wrenching scenes of deprivation and violence accompanied by calm analysis of historical data and laboratory results.” - John Tierney, New York Times His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and explain why current policies are failing. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes beyond the hype as he examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. Carl Hart recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided having a life of addiction, the kind he now studies. In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, Dr. 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.
Young Carl didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives. And his account of the ways in which scientific evidence has been ignored in the war on drugs is as alarming as it is fascinating.” - Boston Globe Hart’s memoir, especially his description of meeting his now-adult son, is deeply honest and often painful.
Winner of the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award About the Book
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