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High Price by Carl Hart — WisdomDeck honest review
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High Price

by Carl Hart

A Columbia neuroscientist's memoir and research on drugs: how environment and alternatives shape use, and why common beliefs about addiction are wrong. Provocative and data-based.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Alternatives reduce drug use.
  2. Environment matters more than the molecule.
  3. Facts over fear.

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