A pioneering neuroscientist shares his tale of growing up in another of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and exactly how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug cravings.

As a youth, Carl Hart didn’t realize the value of college; he studied sufficient to stay around the basketball team. At exactly the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he’s a cutting-edge neuroscientist-Columbia University’s first tenured BLACK teacher in the sciences-whose landmark, controversial research is about Great Price: A Neuroscientist’s Trip of Self-Discovery That Problems Everything You Know About Drugs and Culture redefining our knowledge of addiction.

In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery and weaves his past and present. Hart will go beyond the buzz from the antidrug motion as he examines the partnership among drugs, enjoyment, choice, and inspiration, both in the mind and in culture. His findings shed brand-new light on common suggestions about race, poverty, and drugs, and describe why current guidelines are failing.

Though Hart escaped neighborhoods which were dominated by entrenched poverty as well as the knot of problems connected with it, he has not turned his back again on his root base. Determined to make a difference, he tirelessly applies his scientific research to help conserve real lives. But balancing his former street life with his accomplishments today has not been easy-a struggle he reflects on publicly for the very first time.

A powerful story of hope and change, of a scientist who has dedicated his life to helping others, High Price will alter the way we consider poverty, race, and addiction-and how exactly we can effect switch.