I educate my kids on how to be safe in driving their car, how to be safe when they have sex. The same is true with drugs. I make sure I let them understand the potential positive effects, the potential negative effects, and how to avoid the potential negative effects.
Drugs have become an easy scapegoat for deeper problems related to poverty and race.
Malcolm Fleschner (Executive Producer for The Point) interviews Dr. Carl Hart (Professor of Psychiatry and psychology at Columbia University) on his new book, “High Price.” The book challenges what our
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Drug hysteria, racism and the demonization of Trayvon Martin.
Actor Cory Monteith’s death was the result of a toxic mixture of alcohol and heroin.
Dr. Carl Hart, PhD is the winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000) for “High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.”
We focus too much on drugs’ dangers – and not enough on how racism affects drug policy
Dr. Carl Hart separates the facts from the smoke and the mirrors.
En Colombia existe un debate muy grande sobre las drogas, ¿qué cree usted sobre la situación alrededor de estas sustancias en el país? La gente tiene que entender que el
The low levels of THC that will trigger a positive urine result in professional football can no longer be justified on the basis of player safety or marijuana’s effects on game-day performance.
By JOHN TIERNEY Long before he brought people into his laboratory at Columbia University to smoke crack cocaine, Carl Hart saw its effects firsthand. Growing up in poverty, he
The fight against marijuana prohibition must put racial justice at the center.
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