“Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with others. The” — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't. — Carl Hart Copy Share
“If Barack Obama had come up in a time when the drug war was being waged as intensely as it is now, we probably… — Carl Hart Copy Share
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have… — Carl Hart Copy Share
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work. — Carl Hart Copy Share
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes… — Carl Hart Copy Share
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general. — Carl Hart Copy Share
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate. — Carl Hart Copy Share
“Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with others. The” — Carl Hart Copy Share
I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies. — Carl Hart Copy Share
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed.… — Carl Hart Copy Share
Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself… — Carl Hart Copy Share
When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some… — Carl Hart Copy Share
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer… — Carl Hart Copy Share
The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells… — Carl Hart Copy Share
