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A review by morgan_blackledge
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society by Carl L. Hart
5.0
Once and a while a book reaches into your heart. For me, this is one of those.
This book resonated with me in a way that felt uncanny, almost as if the author was speaking directly to me. For reasons I can't easily describe, this book moved me to tears again and again.
Reading some of the negative and lukewarm reviews was equally odd for me. Did we read the same book? The answer must be yes. So I'm left to conclude that the book is particularly resonant with me for some very personal reasons.
As a man. As a father. As an aspiring professor that spent time in the learning disability "trailer" too. As a hard core functional contextual big B cognitive behavioral therapist. As a neuroscience fanatic. As a clinician working with dual diagnosed, low SES, substance dependent populations. As a human that strives and struggles, I relate to this part memoir, part neuroscience, part behavioral analysis, part political critique, part sociological analysis part confused rant book.
Will everyone love this book? Fuck no! Obviously not. But for me, reading it was an immensely powerful, validating, invigorating, transformative experience.
Dr. Carl is a fucking ROCK STAR. Thank you for sacking up and giving voice to this dangerous and important perspective. It needed to be said, and it took huge balls to say it. I don't agree with every little utterance. But this book is a game changer and I'm grateful to have read it.
This book resonated with me in a way that felt uncanny, almost as if the author was speaking directly to me. For reasons I can't easily describe, this book moved me to tears again and again.
Reading some of the negative and lukewarm reviews was equally odd for me. Did we read the same book? The answer must be yes. So I'm left to conclude that the book is particularly resonant with me for some very personal reasons.
As a man. As a father. As an aspiring professor that spent time in the learning disability "trailer" too. As a hard core functional contextual big B cognitive behavioral therapist. As a neuroscience fanatic. As a clinician working with dual diagnosed, low SES, substance dependent populations. As a human that strives and struggles, I relate to this part memoir, part neuroscience, part behavioral analysis, part political critique, part sociological analysis part confused rant book.
Will everyone love this book? Fuck no! Obviously not. But for me, reading it was an immensely powerful, validating, invigorating, transformative experience.
Dr. Carl is a fucking ROCK STAR. Thank you for sacking up and giving voice to this dangerous and important perspective. It needed to be said, and it took huge balls to say it. I don't agree with every little utterance. But this book is a game changer and I'm grateful to have read it.