This Heroin-Using Professor Wants to Change How We Think About Drugs
Prof. Carl Hart saw drugs as destroyers of communities. Then he saw the positive side. “We have miseducated the public,” he said.
Carl Hart of Columbia University says that most of the millions of Americans who use illegal drugs have overwhelmingly positive experiences.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
April 10, 2021
Carl L. Hart, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, fielded questions the other day about his new book, which makes an unconventional case for drug use.
Dr. Hart, are you on anything now?
“No. I’m in interview season now,” he said on a recent afternoon. “Why would you waste your substance on an interview? You have to concentrate and focus.”
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Black Americans are being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white Americans, says bioethicist Esther Jones.
Still, many Black people are skeptical about receiving the vaccine due to distrust of the American medical system.
Jones says healthcare workers and policymakers can help close racial health gap by understanding the source of this skepticism.
Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized foremergency use in the US, only 35% of Black survey respondents said they d get it as soon as they could, or already had gotten the shot.
Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans Caused by Long History of Medical Abuse
Black Americans are more likely to encounter medical abuse and experience higher rates of illness. March 1, 2021
By Esther Jones, Associate Professor of English, affiliate with Africana Studies and Women s & Gender Studies, Clark University
Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they’d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they’ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S., only 35% of Black survey respondents said they’d get it as soon as they could, or already had gotten the shot.
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