Summary of Dr. Carl Hart's High Price

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was six years old in 1972, and I remember the sounds of my parents fighting. It was worse than ever, and I didn’t understand why the fights never stopped.
#2 My family did not use crack cocaine, nor did they use powder cocaine or heroin. However, alcohol was a part of the chaos. My father never drank during the week, but weekends were his time to let go and make up for the social and cultural isolation of his work as a warehouse manager.
#3 The most widely accepted definition of addiction is the one in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. But more than 75 percent of drug users do not have this problem.
#4 Racism is the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others. While these ideas are bad enough when lodged in the minds of individuals, they are even more harmful when they shape institutional behavior.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Personal Memoirs

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 17 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822511712
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Dr. Carl Hart's High Price
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was six years old in 1972, and I remember the sounds of my parents fighting. It was worse than ever, and I didn’t understand why the fights never stopped.

#2

My family did not use crack cocaine, nor did they use powder cocaine or heroin. However, alcohol was a part of the chaos. My father never drank during the week, but weekends were his time to let go and make up for the social and cultural isolation of his work as a warehouse manager.

#3

The most widely accepted definition of addiction is the one in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. But more than 75 percent of drug users do not have this problem.

#4

racism is the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others. While these ideas are bad enough when lodged in the minds of individuals, they are even more harmful when they shape institutional behavior.

#5

I want to explore what I’ve learned about drugs and addiction, and how it’s important to understand different types of evidence. I know that in my neighborhood, long before crack cocaine was introduced, many families were already being torn apart by institutional racism, poverty, and other forces.

#6

The disconnect between spending on law enforcement and prisons and drug use and addiction rates demonstrates the fallacy of blaming drugs for the effects of drug policy. While crack has been seen as a largely black problem, whites are actually more likely to use the drug.

#7

I was taught that crack cocaine was the cause of all of our problems, and that more prisons and longer sentences would help solve them. But I didn’t know about the ongoing domestic violence that would soon shatter my family.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had learned to hide my feelings as well as any vulnerability or need. I thought that this was the only way to protect myself from further hurt. I had begun compartmentalizing, which would turn out to be a critical skill for my emotional survival.

#2

I wanted to be with my father when my parents first split, because I was shaped by the idea of masculinity from birth. I was encouraged to play with my sisters when I was young, but this behavior was no longer reinforced as I got older.

#3

I was being conditioned by the consequences of my behavior. I wanted to become a man, and the best way to do that was to watch and copy my namesake, Carl. I wanted to spend as much time with my father as I could, and get those rewards and avoid being punished.

#4

I had a difficult time growing up, as I was constantly reminded by my grandmother that I was like my father, and that I would never amount to anything. I felt her rejection of me, as well as her racist treatment of me and my siblings because of our skin color.

#5

I had a difficult childhood, and I was always trying to secure status and power. I was afraid of my parents’ fighting, and I was enraged by the biases I saw in the world and at my grandmother’s house.

#6

The classic study by Todd Risley and Betty Hart compared the number of words heard by children of professional, working-class, and welfare families, focusing specifically on the way parents talked to their kids.

#7

The researchers found that families headed by professionals, whether black or white, spent more time encouraging their children, explaining the world to them, and listening to and responding to their questions.

#8

I had to learn how to navigate the different requirements of the world I came from and the one I live in now. As I grew up, I began to appreciate what mainstream language could offer me.

#9

In a study comparing middle-class blacks and whites to poor people of both races, the middle-class parents focused intensely on their children. The parents in working-class families did not see their children as worthy of having an opinion in adult conversations, and they did not respect their children as equals.

#10

The middle-class way of parenting was not superior to the working-class way. The middle-class children were much happier and better behaved, but they were also much more prepared for life on the bottom.

#11

I learned to be independent and take care of myself early in life, as well as to take responsibility for myself and my brother. I also learned to love and appreciate music that wasn’t played on mainstream radio.