Summary of Dr. Carl Hart's High Price

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#1 I was six years old in 1972, and I remember the sounds of my parents fighting. It was worse than ever, and I didn’t understand why the fights never stopped.

#2 My family did not use crack cocaine, nor did they use powder cocaine or heroin. However, alcohol was a part of the chaos. My father never drank during the week, but weekends were his time to let go and make up for the social and cultural isolation of his work as a warehouse manager.

#3 The most widely accepted definition of addiction is the one in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. But more than 75 percent of drug users do not have this problem.

#4 Racism is the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others. While these ideas are bad enough when lodged in the minds of individuals, they are even more harmful when they shape institutional behavior.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822511712

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was six years old in 1972, and I remember the sounds of my parents fighting. It was worse than ever, and I didn’t understand why the fights never stopped.

#2

My family did not use crack cocaine, nor did they use powder cocaine or heroin. However, alcohol was a part of the chaos. My father never drank during the week, but weekends were his time to let go and make up for the social and cultural isolation of his work as a warehouse manager.

#3

The most widely accepted definition of addiction is the one in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. But more than 75 percent of drug users do not have this problem.

#4

racism is the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others. While these ideas are bad enough when lodged in the minds of individuals, they are even more harmful when they shape institutional behavior.

#5

I want to explore what I’ve learned about drugs and addiction, and how it’s important to understand different types of evidence. I know that in my neighborhood, long before crack cocaine was introduced, many families were already being torn apart by institutional racism, poverty, and other forces.

#6

The disconnect between spending on law enforcement and prisons and drug use and addiction rates demonstrates the fallacy of blaming drugs for the effects of drug policy. While crack has been seen as a largely black problem, whites are actually more likely to use the drug.

#7

I was taught that crack cocaine was the cause of all of our problems, and that more prisons and longer sentences would help solve them. But I didn’t know about the ongoing domestic violence that would soon shatter my family.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had learned to hide my feelings as well as any vulnerability or need. I thought that this was the