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A pioneering neuroscientist stocks his history of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and exactly how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a children, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of college; he studied just enough to remain on the field hockey team. At the same time, he was immersed in avenue life. Today he's a cutting-edge neuroscientist - Columbia University's first tenured African American teacher in the sciences - whose landmark, questionable research is redefining our understanding of addiction. With this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his voyage of self-discovery and weaves his recent and present. Hart runs beyond the hype of the antidrug movement as he examines the relationship among drugs, pleasure, choice, and inspiration, both in the brain and in modern culture. His findings shed new light on common ideas about competition, poverty, and drugs, and explain why current insurance policies are failing. Though Hart escaped neighborhoods that were dominated by entrenched poverty and the knot of problems associated with it, he hasn't turned his rear on his root base. Determined to make a difference, he tirelessly is applicable his medical research to help save real lives. But balancing his former avenue life with his achievements today has not been easy - a struggle he displays on publicly for the first time. A powerful history of expectation and change, of an scientist who may have dedicated his life to assisting others, High Price will adjust just how we think about poverty, competition, and craving - and how we can result change.
