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100 1  Hart, Carl L.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Drug use for grown-ups :|bchasing liberty in the land of 
       fear /|cDr. Carl L. Hart. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    290 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects 
       of recreational drugs on the mind and body, a powerful 
       argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from 
       their being illegal, and a field guide to their use as 
       part of a responsible and happy life. Dr. Carl Hart, Ziff 
       Professor at Columbia University and former Chair of the 
       Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent
       experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on 
       the human mind and body. Dr. Hart also is open about the 
       fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with 
       the rest of his full and productive life as a colleague, 
       husband, father and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he 
       draws on both decades of research and his own personal 
       experience to argue definitively that the criminalization 
       and demonization of drug use is itself far and away the 
       greatest scourge drugs inflict on America. Carl Hart did 
       not always have this view, to put it mildly. He came of 
       age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a 
       time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack 
       cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at 
       proving that drug use caused predominantly bad outcomes. 
       But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his 
       research did not support his hypothesis. And indeed, no 
       one else's evidence did either. From the inside of the 
       massively well-funded research side of the American war on
       drugs, he saw how the inconvenient truth that the facts 
       didn't support the ideology was dismissed, denied and 
       distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the 
       funds rolling in, and black and brown bodies behind bars. 
       Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: 
       it challenges head-on some of our strongest moral reflexes
       about drugs and citizenship. The propaganda war, Hart 
       argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the 
       only subject of any conversation about driving automobiles
       was fatal car crashes. We regulate driving, just as we 
       regulate alcohol. During Prohibition, fatalities from 
       alcohol use skyrocketed, because people didn't know what 
       they were drinking, and hundreds of thousands were 
       inadvertently poisoned. So it is with the opioid epidemic,
       response has been driven by a mass panic that in many 
       respects reminds Hart of the crack cocaine panic of the 
       1980's. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically 
       different vision: of how, when used responsibly, drugs can
       powerfully enrich and enhance our lives. The nexus of 
       special interests that benefit from drug criminalization 
       and demonization, Hart shows us, has kept this country in 
       a terrible place, but change is beginning to come. 
       Ultimately this is about education: the facts are clear. 
       In every country with a more permissive and humane drug 
       regime, all human outcomes are better, from mortality to 
       addiction to overall quality of life, and the countries 
       with the most permissive regimes, like Portugal and 
       Switzerland, have the best outcomes. We have a long way to
       go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is 
       an extraordinarily important step"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Recreational drug use|zUnited States. 
650  0 Drug abuse|zUnited States. 
650  0 Drugs of abuse|zUnited States. 
650  0 Drug legalization|zUnited States.