Posted on 02/19/2021 3:57:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Carl Hart is a Columbia University professor of psychology and neuroscience. He chairs the psych department and has a fondness for heroin – not only as a subject of scholarly pursuit but also as a substance for personal use.
At 54, the married father of three has snorted small amounts of heroin for as many as 10 days in a row and enjoyed it mightily – even if, as he recalls in his new book “Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear” (Penguin Press), he’s experienced mild withdrawal symptoms “12 to 16 hours after the last dose.”
But, as Hart sees it, the discomfort is a worthwhile trade-off. “There aren’t many things in life that I enjoy more than a few lines by the fireplace at the end of the day,” he writes, pointing out that the experience leaves him “refreshed” and “prepared to face another day.”
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Your tuition dollars hard at work.
Sad and pathetic
Ha! Hilarious.
Uh,yeah..wait till he gets some with fetynal laced in..bye,bye.
Recent skyrocketing overdoses of blacks using cocaine. Cocaine usersdid not overdose very much..but now cocaine...even marijuana..is laced with fetynal.
I can hear himsaying...” yeah ,but i get my heroin from a family member so i KNOW its fine”....HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
Excellent point,
Let him go for it - the herd has a way of thinning itself out.
Actually, legalization might not be a bad thing considering the Left's thinking that there is no objective right or wrong.
Those on the Left will rightly conclude that their "fluid reality" stuff is pure crap when they start dropping dead en masse from OD's on legal drugs.
If he was in Oregon that would be legal, or would it?
Lol. A heroin addict, but he’s supposed to be an expert on helping people. A total fraud.
Like all psychiatrists.
I had a friend in New York in the eighties, he did the same thing. Master’s educated and worked for the city schools administration. Every summer he went upstate somewhere and did heroin all summer then stopped and came back and went to work. He ultimately died from AIDS, Also a black male.
Turn on, tune in, drop out.
How many alcoholics do you see everyday?
Is that a drug?
Once upon a time this would get people fired.
Nowadays it’s anything goes.
There aren’t many things in life that I enjoy more than a few lines by the fireplace at the end of the day
Is there a Death Pool going on this guy yet? I want in. Heroin may not be the quickest way to die, but it is an open highway.
April, 2022.
Stop with the hysteria. There some people on this board that honestly think heroin is a gateway drug. Sheesh.
“weed can have serious health effects”
Ditto for alcohol and tobacco. What of it?
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