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JHU Race in America: Carl Hart - Drug Policy is Race Policy
Carl Hart, driven by his scientific research on the effects of drugs on the brain, believes that drug policy in the United States is used to perpetuate racial discrimination.
Hart, chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, has published nearly 100 scientific articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology. He is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior with Charles Ksir, and his most recent book-High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society-was the 2014 winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.