Name: Are drugs really frying your brain? | Dr. Carl Hart
Uploaded: 2022-10-07T18:25:34.000Z
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because I got hoodwinked like everybody else.

I thought that drugs were the source of the problems

- 'All of us agree that the gravest domestic threat

"When was the precise moment when you had this epiphany

that, 'Oh, it's not the neurobiology of somebody,

There was a gradual change over many years of studying.

I learned that the vast majority of people

And these people behaved in ways that were so responsible,

in ways so inconsistent based on anecdote,

So this dissident caused me to start to shift my thinking.

that is deemed the 'Decade of the Brain.'

into studying brain illnesses, brain disease.

we are looking for some neural footprint of addiction.

And we thought that once cocaine interacted

We've learned that that's not necessarily the case.

In fact, it's a lot more complicated than that,

like lack of opportunity, lack of education,

when I thought that drugs were the source of the problem.

One of the ways that we studied the brain

of drug users is through neuroimaging techniques:

and then we take pictures of their brains.

And if they are, for example, drug addicts,

"Well, if you look in this area of someone who uses drugs,

you can see that it's not lighting up quite as much

as the same area in someone who doesn't use a drug."

because all you're doing is taking a snapshot

of somebody's brain in one moment in time.

people's brain structures being within the normal range

We have now mischaracterized people as being brain-damaged-

it's important for the lay audience to keep the focus

on the person's behavior, and not on the person's brain.

Are they not meeting their obligations at home?

Are they not meeting their obligations in school?

Has the person had multiple unsuccessful attempts

at cutting down or scaling back or quitting their drug use?

All of these sort of signs are important indicators

of whether someone is drug addicted or not.

And notice, I didn't look at anyone's brain,

I'm really looking at the person's behavior.

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