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257 - Carl Hart: The Neuroscience of Drugs and Their Role in the Good Life
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Carl Hart is Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, where he researches the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in humans. In this wide-ranging conversation, Robinson and Carl discuss drugs from many different angles, touching on the neuroscience of addiction, the opioid crisis, drugs’ connections to poverty, the roles they can play in a creative life, and more. Carl’s most recent book is Drug Use for Grown-Ups (2021, Penguin). Drug Use for Grown-Ups: https://a.co/d/efgXuJK OUTLINE 00:00:49 Introduction 00:03:14 What Is a Drug? 00:14:58 DARE and Drug Education 00:26:07 Rodrigo Duterte and the Drug War in the Philippines 00:39:25…