“I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison].” Quote by Jack Barakat
“Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.” StillsMomentsSchoolHigh SchoolMy FriendsDullHanging OutBaltimoreSchool FriendsHigh School Friends Author:Jack Barakat
“I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].” PlayBigsAudienceStageFrontsNervousFrightStage Fright Author:Jack Barakat
“I feel like blue jeans are kind of too 'country' for me.” FeelsKindCountryBlueJeansBlue Jeans Author:Jack Barakat
“I have so much freedom to put whatever I want on a t-shirt, and it's cool because I get a lot of fan feedback so I like to see what kids like to wear and I like to use some of their ideas to make t-shirts.” WantIdeasUseKidsFansShirtsT ShirtFeedback Author:Jack Barakat
“I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayUseAbleNumbersSpecialDrugIncludingWideSignificantRangeCocaineSignificant Other Author:Carl Hart
“Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.” PeoplePersonsDifferentUseAcceptingHappenedSpecialDrugLet MeDataCocaineAberrationDifferent ExperiencesDrug Use Author:Carl Hart
“Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter."” PeopleHardPleasureBrainPercentAngryPortionsStressedDopamineNeurotransmitters Author:Carl Hart
“Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we only found that. But you can destroy the main dopamine-producing structures of the brain and you can still get an animal to self-administer drugs like cocaine.” StillsSelfEnoughFoundAnimalBrainEffectsDrugStructureFocusedCocaineDopamineEarly Work Author:Carl Hart
“Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensAbilityBrainStudyHavensToolsReleaseNeurotransmitters Author:Carl Hart
“If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.” IfsThinkingWantSaidPlayMightRacePolicyDrugRacismTrialsFactorsThey SaidProsecutionDrug PolicyZimmerman Author:Carl Hart