"Drugs Aren’t the Problem": Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths About Addiction | Democracy Now!
"When
I started looking at the evidence more carefully, it became clear to me
that drugs weren’t the problem. The problem was poverty, drug policy,
lack of jobs — a wide range of things," Dr. Carl Hart explained earlier
this year in an interview that ranks #7 in our list of the 20 most
popular segments of 2014.
"One of the things that shocked was
when I discovered that 80 to 90 percent of the people who actually use
drugs — like crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana — were
not addicted."
