Dr. Carl L. Hart
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Dr. Carl Hart: Blame Drug War For DMX’s Death, Not Drugs
This familiar script allows journalists to tell a sexier tale, brimming with clickbait for the undiscerning reader; it also reinforces misguided notions about the unpredictability of drug effects, which enables authorities to divert attention away from more pressing legitimate concerns, like heart disease, racism, poverty, substandard education, and un-and under-employment. → Read More
The Real Opioid Emergency
The current crisis fits a historical pattern of racial disparity in how society treats drug users. → Read More
Ivy League Professor: 'I Would Much Rather My Own Children Interact With Drugs Than With the Police'
Hart writes: Drug effects are predictable; police interactions with black people are not. In encounters with police, too often the black person ends up dead. That is why I would much rather my own children interact with drugs than with the police. → Read More
This is how Singapore teaches children to stay away from drugs
The city-state has been distributing morbid anti-drug propaganda in its schools. So we asked an expert what Singapore’s harsh anti-drug policies actually achieve in reality. → Read More
What’s really behind the ‘failure’ of the US ‘war on drugs’ in Afghanistan?
Although drug production has not been reduced, this has not really been a failure. The drug war’s true function lies in reinforcing western support for the war. → Read More
“The degree of the racism is insane”: Johann Hari on the ‘war on drugs’
“African Americans are no more likely to buy or sell drugs than any other group, but they make up the overwhelming majority of the people who go to prison for it.” (27:42 minutes) → Read More
In the US war on drugs, “equal justice under law” rings hollow
Our massive criminal punishment system is infected at all points by racial injustice. And the ‘war on drugs’ has only accelerated mass incarceration. → Read More
Pandora’s box: the real impact of drug policies
Policies that should simply have been health strategies, have actually opened the door to a punitive system which has accelerated violence, socio-economic gaps, and international asymmetries. Can we close ‘Pandora’s box’? → Read More
Myths, moralism, and hypocrisy drive the international drug control system
Why are Colombia and Bolivia acceptable theatres for violent weaponised counter-narcotics operations, and not Poland or Canada? Our international drug policies reflect a damaging bias towards the global north. → Read More
A Neuroscientist Explains How He Found Out Meth Is Almost Identical to Adderall
A Columbia University psychiatry professor talks about what he's learned from trying the drug himself and studying it over the years. → Read More
Why research is biased against pot and other recreational drugs
Scientists routinely focus on the negative while virtually ignoring the beneficial effects, says neuroscientist Carl Hart. It’s not that they’re dishonest, just self-interested. → Read More