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Carl Hart Biography

Carl Hart (born October 30, 1966) is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction. Hart was the first tenured African American professor of sciences at Columbia University.

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Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.

Thinking, Brain, Tools, Limited, Hampered

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

Anecdotes, Deal, Drug, Use

If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.

Associate, Community, Gay, Member, People, Taxes

Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we only found that. But you can destroy the main dopamine-producing structures of the brain and you can still get an animal to self-administer drugs like cocaine.

Animal, Dopamine, Drug, Enough, Focused, Self

I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me. And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know. "

New York, Thinking, Boys, Interested, People, Three

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.

Behaved, Drug, Numbers, People, Thinking, Wide

One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.

Drug, Happened, Law, Laws, Person, Use

The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.

Acted, Attention, Done, Passed, Past, Weight

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

People, Drug, Trying, Conversation, Rational

If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor. " It's so dishonest.

Thinking, Race, Play, Policy, George, Prosecution

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

Assumption, Based, Drug, Drugs, Flawed, Should

Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself is not racist. But people's decision about where we're going to place our efforts, who we're going to prosecute, who we're not going to prosecute, is racism. And nobody's calling them on it.

Decision, Efforts, Law, Nobody, People, Racism

The way we're currently educating people about heroin is to say that heroin is so awful. Heroin is not so much the problem. It's when you combine it. It's hard to die from heroin alone.

People, Awful, Way, Currently, Hard

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

Journey, Discovery, Self, Society, Price

You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And it's become more and more solidified, more and more entrenched.

Empty, Rapper, School, Thinking, Verbal

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

Needs, Pressure, Politician, Continuously, Nothing

Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine. . . they went downhill. . . " I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.

Data, Different Experiences, Drug Use, Happened, Looking, Throw