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Ladataan... Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear (2021)Tekijä: Dr. Carl L. Hart
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I am pro-legalization, anti-'war on drugs', and fully cognizant of America's prudish tendencies and hyperbolic media. So I get what he's trying to do in this book. But it ain't working. It's full of circular logic and vague statements that don't help his arguments. He also virtually ignores major factors that contribute to unhealthy dependencies on drugs, like poverty, homelessness, mental health, self-destructiveness, and so on. Drug users in Carl Hart's world are all gainfully employed, in healthy supportive relationships, and have no issues of self-control. I think he tried so hard to view drugs through a positive lens that he developed myopia. ( ) To describe this book in one word, I'd maybe choose "scandalous." Dr. Hart uses heroin & has no intention of stopping. It's a harmless hobby, like having a drink. "Grown-ups" can responsibly take heroin, and opioids, and meth - there is no drug that should be off limits. Now there's the general libertarian argument for that, which Dr. Hart espouses; but as a tenured professor of psychology at Columbia specializing in neuropharmacology, he'll also argue authoritatively that none of these drugs will necessarily harm you, if used responsibly - so it's not simply a matter of "you should be able to legally destroy your life if you choose". It's also that, if you're a "grown-up" about it, you won't. Dr. Hart wrote this risky book to come out of the closet, in the hopes others would follow. I think he will likely find himself forever in the minority. I've never read any account of someone in such a prestigious station in life coming clean about so much casual, ongoing drug use (he's tried everything). But now I have - & I guess he'd say that's the point of the book. And I know he'll say that this is more evidence of how badly the book is needed, but hearing him justify his heroin use and explain how NOT an addict he is made me wonder how long it might take for the inevitable shoe to drop - where will Dr. Hart be a year or more from now? Still a happy user insisting he's not an addict? Will it be true? I believe it to be true of him now. I do believe his accounts and all the evidence he presents; but being brainwashed by our anti-drug society I just can't help but wonder... One constant point of his that I appreciate is this: drugs feel good, and that's reason enough to take them. He gets really uptight around LSD users because they tend to try to justify their drug use as "different" from others - they're doing it for mind-expanding reasons or whatever, not to get high. "What's wrong with getting high?" he cuts one guy off mid-sentence. I love that. The right to pleasure... not currently enshrined in the Constitution, but should be, as Tom Lehrer put it decades ago. He was talking about pornography, not drugs, but the principle's the same - "Obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on - but we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. it's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the constitution unfortunately." ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects of recreational drugs on the mind and body, a powerful argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from their being illegal, and a field guide to their use as part of a responsible and happy life. Dr. Carl Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart also is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a colleague, husband, father and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on both decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use is itself far and away the greatest scourge drugs inflict on America. Carl Hart did not always have this view, to put it mildly. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused predominantly bad outcomes. But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis. And indeed, no one else's evidence did either. From the inside of the massively well-funded research side of the American war on drugs, he saw how the inconvenient truth that the facts didn't support the ideology was dismissed, denied and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and black and brown bodies behind bars. Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: it challenges head-on some of our strongest moral reflexes about drugs and citizenship. The propaganda war, Hart argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the only subject of any conversation about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes. We regulate driving, just as we regulate alcohol. During Prohibition, fatalities from alcohol use skyrocketed, because people didn't know what they were drinking, and hundreds of thousands were inadvertently poisoned. So it is with the opioid epidemic, response has been driven by a mass panic that in many respects reminds Hart of the crack cocaine panic of the 1980's. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: of how, when used responsibly, drugs can powerfully enrich and enhance our lives. The nexus of special interests that benefit from drug criminalization and demonization, Hart shows us, has kept this country in a terrible place, but change is beginning to come. Ultimately this is about education: the facts are clear. In every country with a more permissive and humane drug regime, all human outcomes are better, from mortality to addiction to overall quality of life, and the countries with the most permissive regimes, like Portugal and Switzerland, have the best outcomes. We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step."-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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