High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society Audiobook (Free)

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of developing up in another of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and exactly how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug craving.

Being a youth, Carl Hart didn’t realize the worthiness of college; he studied sufficient to stay for the golf ball team. At exactly the same time, he was immersed in road life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist-Columbia University’s 1st tenured African American professor in the sciences-whose landmark, controversial analysis is about Great Cost: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Culture redefining our knowledge of addiction.

Within this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his trip of self-discovery and weaves his past and present. Hart will go beyond the buzz from the antidrug motion as he examines the relationship among drugs, enjoyment, choice, and inspiration, both in the mind and in culture. His results shed fresh light on common ideas about competition, poverty, and medications, and clarify why current guidelines are failing.

Though Hart escaped neighborhoods that were dominated by entrenched poverty as well as the knot of problems associated with it, he hasn’t turned his back again on his origins. Determined to produce a difference, he tirelessly applies his medical research to greatly help save actual lives. But controlling his former road life with his accomplishments today has not been easy-a struggle he reflects on publicly for the first time.

A powerful story of wish and change, of the scientist that has dedicated his life to helping others, High Cost will alter the way we think about poverty, competition, and addiction-and how we can effect modification.