Carl Hart, Columbia University Scientist, Confronts Drug War In ‘High Price’

Everything you know and learned about drugs is wrong! Uncover the truth with Carl Hart as he sets the record straight in this insightful interview with the Huffington Post.

Everything we’ve been told about drugs is wrong, Hart says. The vast majority of drug users never become addicted. Cops, politicians and the media have consistently told us scare stories overstating the effects of drugs, misinterpreting the science around them in the process.

Hart’s own research is notable for focusing on drugs administered to humans, not rats, in a lab. It has cut against the prevailing conventional wisdom that, for example, crack-cocaine users don’t respond to economic alternatives. He serves on the highest body in his field, the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, which is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health.

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