Drug Use for Grown-Ups w/ Carl L. Hart

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by the chair of Columbia University's psychology department, Dr. Carl L. Hart. They talk about his newest book, "Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear." Discussed topics include: public misunderstanding about responsible drug use versus addiction, the racist underpinnings of the war on drugs, and how evidence-based policy could improve countless lives.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, February 8th, 2021 and I'm the
0:19.6	host of the show Kara Santa Maria. And before we get into today's episode, I want to thank those of you who continue to make Talk Nurdy 100% free to download for anyone who is interested. And you do that by pledging your support on Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy by
0:36.4	raiding and reviewing anywhere you get podcasts and also by shopping in the
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0:42.6	Today's top patrons on Patreon include Michael Goshay, Mary Niva,
0:47.6	Leonard Prince, Christopher Pitts, June Separa,
0:50.8	Pasqualee, Ulrika Hagman, Dutas Infinitas, Charles Payet, Brian Holden, Pedro
0:57.7	Emrosario Barbosa, Daniel Lang, David J. E. Smith, Robert Christ and Elise Christie.
1:04.4	Wow, you guys.
1:05.4	Wow, thank you all so, so much
1:08.4	from the bottom of my heart.
1:09.9	You really do make Talk Nurdie possible
1:12.0	and you help me keep this train on the tracks.
1:15.3	All right, I've got a really great episode for you guys this week. I've been really
1:18.6	looking forward to this one for quite some time. I'm glad we were able to finally get together, well, you know, digitally, remotely
1:25.2	get together to share this interview with you. So this week I had the opportunity to sit down with
1:30.7	Dr. Carl L. Hart. He is a psychology and psychiatry professor at
1:35.7	Columbia University. I also just read that he was the first tenured
1:40.1	African-American professor of sciences at Columbia and he's also a research
1:44.8	scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has done a ton of research.
1:51.6	He has also published a lot of papers, a lot of popular articles,
1:55.9	and several books about drug use. Now he has a, what I think is a common sense and evidence-based approach, what many people
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