📚 2 Books mentioned in "Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve? | Episode 28" of People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve? | Episode 28
Published on January 20, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Autobiography
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Because I read your first book, which is called "High Price," and you were the nerdiest lab rat that ever existed; I would have never imagined you emerging as an advocate.
Steve Levitt mentions reading Carl Hart's book, 'High Price', highlighting the surprising contrast between Hart's advocacy work and his persona as described in the book.
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Buy Drug Use for Grown-Ups by Carl L. Hart on Amazon
In his new book, "Drug Use for Grown-Ups," he argues for a radical overhaul of drug policy.
The host, Steve Levitt, introduces Carl Hart's new book, 'Drug Use for Grown-Ups', highlighting its significance in the discussion on drug policy reform.
I've read your book, "Drug Use for Grown-Ups," which is an excellent book, and you really advocate for a lot of drugs that many people are against.
In this segment, Steve Levitt mentions that he has read Carl Hart's book, 'Drug Use for Grown-Ups'. He praises the book as excellent and points out that it advocates for drug policies that might be seen as controversial.
In your book, you mentioned that you use heroin, and there must have been a hundred headlines about Columbia professor admits to heroin; did it surprise you how the reporting went about that issue?
Steve Levitt asks Carl Hart about the media's sensational reaction to his admission of heroin use as discussed in his book, 'Drug Use for Grown-Ups', which triggered a flurry of headlines.
Yeah, so in chapter four of the book, The Brain chapter, I ask the reader to pay attention to the language that's used; oftentimes, researchers use language like 'drug users' brains have atrophied or you see this decrease in volume., Yet they only took a measure of the person's brain at one moment in time, and so they can't say anything about a change, but oftentimes they do, and that's a clear violation of what they can actually say with their current methods.
Carl Hart discusses chapter 4 of his book, focusing on brain imaging and how findings related to neuroimaging can be manipulated, often misrepresenting the effects of drugs.