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    Carl Hart,

    Professor, Psychology, Columbia University
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    Carl Hart is an associate professor at Columbia University. He has published nearly 100 scientific articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology. His 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. Fast Company named Hart one of Most Creative People for 2014.

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    The number of heroin users has more than doubled in just a decade. The death rate from overdose has nearly quadrupled. And with cut-rate prices and... read more
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    Sunday, Oct 19 2014

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    What makes meditation so powerful? How do drugs alter your mental state? How can social pressures chemically impact your moral code? CIW analyzes... read more
    2 hours | Talk | Cadillac Palace Theatre

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