Dr Carl Hart, the voice of reason in a sea of ignorance

In my opinion, Dr Carl Hart is a voice of reason in a sea of ignorance when it comes to the “war on drugs”, the “opioid crisis”, and addiction. I’ve done extensive research and from that, formed my own opinions but I’ve found him to be very solid, compelling, and an incredibly reasoned neuroscientist who addresses all the difficult issues surrounding addictive drugs.

Despite the fact that Dr Hart is a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Columbia University who has done research with addicts and addictive substances, the United States government has ignored his research  regarding the CDC guidelines or current legislation. As a matter of fact, no pain management or addiction experts were consulted when putting together the CDC guidelines. Guidelines which were put together behind closed doors, in secrecy, without the prior knowledge of the mainstream medical community. The MME (Maximum Morphine Equivalents) were not based on any scientific evidence or peer reviewed studies. 

Dr Hart has testified before Congress but obviously, our policy-makers are not doing their due diligence, instead they rely on false reporting by the CDC and the CDC has admitted to gross inflation of the numbers with regard to prescription opioid overdoses and deaths, as well as using faulty information gathering methods. Dr Hart is the only researcher who is actually working with, and researching addicts, using addictive psychoactive substances.