High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society – A PEN Award-Winning Memoir on Addiction and Race
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High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a leading researcher in the field of drugÂ addiction, who grew up in one of Miamiâ€™s toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives.
WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
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Young Carl didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientistâ€”Columbia Universityâ€™s first tenured African American professor in the sciencesâ€”whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction.

In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, Dr. Carl Hart recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes beyond the hype as he examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and explain why current policies are failing.
Country USA
Brand Harper
Manufacturer Harper
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780062015884
ReleaseDate 2013-06-11
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780062015884

Country	USA
Brand	Harper
Manufacturer	Harper
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780062015884
ReleaseDate	2013-06-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780062015884

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society – A PEN Award-Winning Memoir on Addiction and Race

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