Surely, you have considered the large number of pharmaceutical products that we deploy in our society. Perhaps you have considered costs as a taxpayer or cost increases in your health care insurance policy. I bet you’ve even thought about the use of psychiatric drugs in our schools, yes I know it’s a touchy subject, and I guess diagnosing someone with ADHD, ADD, or bipolar is one way to get them to take the drugs so they behave in class, but is it really ethical to do so? let’s talk yes?

Interestingly, as the debate continues, a new one is emerging about the problems of illegal drugs, and one PhD seems to think that if teens, especially African-American teens, are going to do drugs in the slums anyway, maybe, they need a little guidance so they don’t fry their brains, cause health problems, or die of cardiac arrest, stroke, or something terrible like driving under the influence and crashing their car, potentially killing innocent bystanders.

CSPAN – Harlem Book Fair featured a televised interview on July 20, 2013 with Morgan State University’s ER Shipp, a resident journalist and Carl Hart PhD and author of “High Price” explained to the audience that many people use our illegal drugs, but only 20% ever have a problem with it, and black minorities, especially men, are much more likely to come into contact with law enforcement because of racial profiling, which explains why there are more African Americans in our prison population in a misrepresented state. skew.

He tells the audience that users can take drugs if they take small doses the right way. I totally disagree with this whole premise and with Carl Hart PhD, but it’s up for debate, and his views were interesting. The book, if you want to buy it, which I don’t recommend, and I’m really surprised that he was able to find a publisher: the book is titled;

“High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery Challenging Everything He Knows About Drugs and Society,” by Carl Hart PhD, HarperCollins Publishing, New York, NY, 2013, 357 Pages, eVersion on Kindle ASIN: B009Nf75MY .

For the record, I would like to add something to your discussion and that is; What are we doing as a society that seems to be pushing our young adults toward drug use, experimentation, and abuse while they are teenagers? Is there not a deeper fundamental question at stake? Look, I’m all about tough love and I like drug addict excuses, still, maybe we should listen to Carl’s side of the coin too. Think about this.