{"id":183519,"date":"2021-02-20T00:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-snort-heroin-regularly-for-work-life-balance\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T00:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:49:15","slug":"i-snort-heroin-regularly-for-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-snort-heroin-regularly-for-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"#I snort heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#I snort heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Carl Hart is a Columbia University professor of psychology and neuroscience<\/a>. He chairs the psych department and has a fondness for heroin \u2013 not only as a subject of scholarly pursuit but also as a substance for personal use. <\/p>\n

At 54, the married father of three has snorted small amounts of heroin for as many as 10 days in a row and <\/strong>enjoyed it mightily \u2013 even if, as he recalls in his new book \u201cDrug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear<\/a>\u201d (Penguin Press), he\u2019s experienced mild withdrawal symptoms \u201c12 to 16 hours after the last dose.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, as Hart sees it, the discomfort is a worthwhile trade-off. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere aren\u2019t many things in life that I enjoy more than a few lines by the fireplace at the end of the day,\u201d he writes, pointing out that the experience leaves him \u201crefreshed\u201d and \u201cprepared to face another day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hart, who studies the effects of psychoactive drugs on humans, finds his use of the narcotic to be \u201cas rational as my alcohol use. Like vacation, sex and the arts, heroin is one of the tools that I use to maintain my work-life balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

His reason for coming clean about doing opiates and the like is to advocate for decriminalizing possession of recreational drugs. The book makes the case \u201cthat the demonization of drug use \u2013 not drugs themselves \u2013 [has] been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country\u2019s enduring structural racism,\u201d according to the publisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Carl Hart, 54.<\/figcaption>
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Hart told Insider<\/a> that he hopes to see President Biden work toward federal regulation and licensing of the use of substances that are often described as neighborhood scourges. <\/p>\n

And, by his logic, if people are going to indulge, <\/strong>they should at least do it safely. <\/p>\n

For instance, he told the site, \u201cif you\u2019re going to use opioids, don\u2019t use alcohol as a background \u2026 [the combination] increases the likelihood of respiratory depression and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just heroin that keeps Hart centered, he claims. The prof is also a fan of the effects brought on by MDMA (better known as Molly or ecstasy) and methamphetamine (a drug that has caused\u00a0the most overdose deaths in nearly half the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). In describing MDMA,<\/strong> he recalled \u201cintense feelings of pleasure, gratitude and energy. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m rolling, I just want to breathe deeply and enjoy it. The simple act of breathing can be extremely pleasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He even found pleasure in snorting a version of so-called bath salts, a synthetic cathinone that\u2019s been linked to disturbing behavior from barking to breaking into homes. Hart\u2019s assessment: \u201cunequivocally wonderful.\u201d In his book, he recounts the effects as being \u201ceuphoric, energetic, clearheaded and highly social<\/a> \u2026 niiiiiice.\u201d<\/p>\n

So nice, in fact, that he writes about wanting to take the drug ahead of \u201csome awful required social event, such as an academic reception.\u201d A rep for Columbia has not returned The Post\u2019s request for comment on Hart\u2019s illegal drug use. <\/p>\n

While recreational-drug enthusiasts may salute Hart, the medical and addiction community may find the prof\u2019s utopian app<\/a>roach less than ideal. According to the CDC, in 2018, nearly 15,000 people died from drug overdoses involving heroin in the US.<\/p>\n

Some experts maintain that even legalizing cannabis, the mildest of recreational drugs, poses dangers, including an increase in visits to emergency rooms<\/a>, as one recent report from the University of Michigan found.<\/p>\n

Plus, weed can have serious health effects: \u201cSmoke a couple times a day and marijuana will knock off your memory. That is pretty certain,\u201d Christian Hopfer, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told The Post. \u201cAnd there is no question that legalization has a normalizing effect on something that used to be against the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

While acknowledging in his book that \u201cdrug use is not for everybody,\u201d Hart cites America\u2019s founding documents and their promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as reasons for having the choice to snort lines, smoke weed and expand one\u2019s mind. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can live your life as you choose,\u201d he told Insider. \u201cAnd it\u2019s nobody\u2019s business, as long as you do not interfere with anybody else doing the same.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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