Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter." Carl Hart More Quotes by Carl Hart More Quotes From Carl Hart Crack in the early 1980s or mid 1980s I'm sorry is that one of the worst myth is that one hit and you're addicted for life. We saw that in 1980s and we're seeing it again with methamphetamine today, one hit and you're addicted and it simply not true, addiction requires work not the people should go out and experiment or do these themselves but the fact is that's a myth and the concern is that, it's dangerous because when people perpetuates that myths and then when young people are people actually try methamphetamine or crack cocaine and find that, that doesn't happen to them. Carl Hart addiction sorry people I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies. Carl Hart different president want I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know." Carl Hart new-york boys thinking We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing. Carl Hart politician pressure needs I have a hard time arguing with stupid people. Carl Hart hard stupid time people You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence. Carl Hart let-go your go you If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them. Carl Hart deal something bad society Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence. Carl Hart just foundation education country In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate. Carl Hart pretty you hood problem It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration. Carl Hart above mission information politics Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country. Carl Hart me perfect opportunity country My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not. Carl Hart me black research people I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students. Carl Hart i-am colleagues police black It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran. Carl Hart i-am discrimination diversity black The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't. Carl Hart you science people thinking It takes some courage to say you were wrong. Carl Hart wrong say you courage I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get. Carl Hart because thought basketball military I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases. Carl Hart air-force university force college I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers. Carl Hart bring through black used If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't. Carl Hart me care work people
