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

"In his new book High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society, Carl Hart blowsapart the most common myths about drugs and their impact on society."--Kristen Gwynne, Salon.com

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""

A hard-hitting attack on current drug policy by a neuroscientist who grew up on the streets of one of Miami s toughest neighborhoods An eye-opening, absorbing, complex story of scientific achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)"

Combining memoir, popular science, and public policy, Hart s study lambasts current drug laws as draconian and repressive . His is a provocative clarion call for students of sociology and policy-makers alike. --"Publishers Weekly""

Perhaps nowhere has a voice been more resonant in a single place than in Dr. Carl Hart s profoundly impacting new memoir, "High Price." --"Ebony.com""

In his new book High Price: A Neuroscientist s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society, Carl Hart blowsapart the most common myths about drugs and their impact on society. --Kristen Gwynne, Salon.com"

A seminal contribution to the conversation about the intersection of the legal system and drug addiction from a bodacious brother with both street credibility and academic credentials. --LA Sentinel"

Moving and inspiring . Hart s memoir is deeply honest and often painful. 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 account of rising from the projects to the ivory tower is as poignant as his call to change the way society thinks about race, drugs and poverty. --Scientific American"

A refreshing new analysis of drug use that reveals how common misconceptions about illegal drugs are far too often not based on empirical evidence. . . . . [A] thought-provoking [and] important work on substance abuse. --"Library Journal" (starred review)"

A groundbreaking neuroscientist, who, escaping a life of crime and drugs, helps to save the lives of addicts, examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice and motivation, shedding new light on common ideas about race, poverty and drugs and why current policies are failing. 40,000 first printing.