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Prof. @Columbia; Author, Drug Use for Grown-ups: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534657/drug-use-for-grown-ups-by-dr-carl-l-hart/
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On Trial for a Radical Approach to Reducing Drug Overdoses in British Columbia

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By Carl Hart
| The Nation Verified
Society / October 27, 2025 On Trial for a Radical Approach to Reducing Drug Overdoses in British Columbia The Vancouver duo behind the Drug User Liberation Front faces 40 years behind bars for drug trafficking. But this is no ordinary case.
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Addictions and habits, explained by a neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a journalist

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By Carl Hart, Charles Duhigg, Adam Alter
| Big Think Verified
So here's the thing to recognize about your bad habit. You cannot eradicate your bad habit. You have to trick your neurology. We are living through this huge evolution in our understanding of habits, and it's being driven primarily by understanding the neurology of where habits come from. I thought that drugs were the source of the problems that we were seeing in our community. Turns out not only was I wrong, society was wrong.
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Neurobiologist, Philosopher, and Addict

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By Steven Levitt, Owen Flanagan, Carl Hart, Consciousness Reconsidered
| Freakonomics. Verified
Addiction is a thorny problem, both biologically and philosophically. Most of the people who work on that problem don’t have a lot of firsthand experience with it. But my guest today, Owen Flanagan, comes at the problem as a neurobiologist, as a philosopher, and as an addict. He spent two decades actively addicted to alcohol and pills. FLANAGAN: I was in some ways in shock that I was actually a prime example of someone who was living a dysfunctional life.
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