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>> trevor: hey, what's do you think on, everybody? i'm trevor noah, and this is the daily social distancing show. today is monday, april 5th, and i hope everybody had a happy easter, and enjoyed a nice easter egg hunt. i haven't found my eggs yet. my trick is i wait a few weeks until all of them start to rot, and then the smell gives them away. pretty smart. anyway, coming up on tonight's show: america has a new creepiest congressman, desi lydic discovers why women are leaving the workforce, and why georgia republicans are switching to pepsi. so let's do this, people! welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> from trevor's couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is "the daily social distancing show" with trevor noah! ♪ ♪ >> trevor: let's kick things off with an update on covid 19. the pandemic that's harder to get rid of than a serial killer in a hockey mask. this past year, sometimes felt like an endless repetition of
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netflix, crafts and boring little walks around the neighborhood. hell, i took so many walks i started naming the fire hydrants. hey, what's going on, yellow? spiny, yeah, good to see you! richard, where's my (~bleep~) money, richard? i don't forget, you told me you needed to buy a new net to close the water hole and you didn't. i'll kill you, richard! but now, things are suddenly moving very fast in the right direction. the only question is, are they moving fast enough? >> after an weekend of easter gatherings and spring break travelers, the fear this morning another dangerous surge is looming, michigan now seeing the country's largest spike in cases, reporting its highest daily count since early december. while infections are rising in over 20 states, health experts aren't in agreement that a fourth wave is imminent. >> we will see in the next two weeks the highest number of
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cases reported globally since the beginning to have the pandemic. >> i think there's enough immunity in the population that you won't see a true fourth wave of infections. what we're seeing is pockets of infection around the country. >> this as the vaccine rollout is picking up pace. the c.d.c. says more than 3 million doses are now distributed every day and over 18% of americans are fully vaccinated. >> trevor: that's right, people. america may be entering a fourth wave of coronavirus. this pandemic is getting more spinoffs than "law and order." but the good news is -- focus on the good news -- the fourth wave may not be as bad at the first because so many are vaccinated. maybe like when the wave comes around a fourth time in a baseball came oooh, yeah, right. the problem is we just don't know yet. some experts are taking things
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are about to get worse and some say things are getting better. it makes it hard to know how cautious we should be, that's why i'm not taking chances. i have starred licking doorknobs again, but just to be safe, i put a condom on them first. basically right now we're in a race between people who are masking and getting vaccinated, and the people spreading the virus. that's been the big question in history -- are the people solving the problem faster than the people causing the problem. are the people fixing the climate going faster than the people changing it. are people building suer systems faster than people shitting in the street. are we producing king gongs fast enough to fight the godzillas? you want to be one of the people fixing the problems, so get vaccinated so you can live your life. keep your mask on so you can stay safe. time is of the essence here. if you do see the coronavirus, you know what you've got to.
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do you've got to stall. oh, hey, corona. i know you want to come into my lungs but before that i was wondering, do you have any good podcasts you would recommended. wow, with serial killers? that's cool. aaahhh! yeah! that's right! i got the screens! bitch! whoo! but let's move on to some political news. donald trump may have lost the 2020 election, but that's only if you count all the votes against him. the good news is that isn't mean he walked away from the race empty handed. >> some trump supporters may have gotten or given more than they bargained for when they donated to his recollection campaign. a "new york times" investigation found people who thought they were sending a single donation were charged over and over again by his campaign operation, and what the "times" calls an intentional scheme to boost revenue. recurring online donations were set up by default.
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here is how that fine print disclaimer looked. take a look at this. it was buried, that tiny line debottom of the first yellow box calls for a weekly recurring donation. hundreds of thousands of people had money withdrawn without their knowledge, leading to a record amount of fraud claims against more than 64 million bucks in refunds in the last months of 20/20. >> a 63-year-old man willing any initially contributed $500 to the trump campaign. when the man had his bank account repeatedly charged $500 several times in the weeks to come to the tune of $3,000 in less than 30 days. >> trevor: goddam! say what you want about donald trump, but this man is a legend! his last act as president was to rob his own supporters! they loved him so much they stormed the capitol for him and, meanwhile, he was, like, you go
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on ahead, i'll watch your stuff. leave your wallet here, bobby, i got you! what's most surprising to me is trump's base didn't expect this from him because, guys, if you know donald trump at all, you should know that he will scam anyone! that's why even when melania is home, she takes her purse with her to the bathroom. i'm going to pee pee now. credit card comes with nee now, donald. you would think after getting scammed his supporters would have second thoughts about him, but disturbance out some victims still say they're loyal to donald trump. how far does he have to go for these guys to stop believing in him? >> sure, i missed that checked box that let trump take my nose but that's my fault. i would still shake the man's hand -- if i had a hand because i missed that check box, too. finally, another political story we missed while we were off the air last week. normally, when we miss a political standing, we say, big
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deal, and wait for the next one because it's fine, scandals about politicians come around more often that are youtube apologies. but this story is so insane that we just have to talk about it. >> stunning new allegations that florida republican matt geds gaz paid women for sex. congress is investigating whether the politics gave cash or other items of value to multiple women who are recruited online to allegedly sleep with him. they were told to meet at hotels and some encounters reportedly involved the drug ecstasy. investigating whether gaetz had a relationship with a 17-year-old and involved sex traffickic laws. female colleagues referred to him as creepy gaetz because he made them feel so uncomfortable. once in congress sources say gaetz allegedly boasted of his
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encounters with women and would try to show colleagues photos of naked women he said he slept with. he tried to show them a video of a naked woman with a hula hoop. >> trevor: this is crazy! matt dpaidz, florida congressman and only living relative of bee vies and -- bee bevis and buthe. do i think he looks like a buy who shows pictures of naked women at work? yes. but do i think he would have paid for sex? yeah, definitely. but do i think that he's the kind of guy who would take ecstasy and have sex with an underaged girl? also yes. so, really, there's only one question left for gaetz, does he deny all of the charges or does he admit to everything and just
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become king of florida? and don't foregreat, these allegations would be criminal no near the what, but the fact he's in congress makes them even worse because at what point in the day is he showing all of these nude videos? and that's why americans should be free to choose their own healthcare! and speaking of free -- check out these titties! but let's move on to our main story, voting, democracy's rose ceremony. ever since last winter's election when democrats turned out in record numbers, republicans have been working hard to make voting harder. last week the biggest voter restriction law passed in up with to have the states where the results were closest. >> a new law signed by georgia's governor brian kemp imposes a series of new restrictions on elections in the state. >> let's remind folks about what the law does. it shrinks the window for sending absentee ballots,
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severely limits the number of ballot dropboxes and gives more control to state lawmakers who are majority republican. it also makes it a crime to give water or food to people waiting in line to vote. >> president biden slammed the republican-backed law as sick. >> what i'm worried about is how un-american this initiative is. this makes jim crow look like jim eagle. >> trevor: you tell 'em. then explain it because i have no idea what you're talking about. is he saying eagles are worse than crows? are we all supposed to share his personal bird rankings? this is the most joe biden ever. he's trying to make a point about america's history of racist voter restrictions and, instead, he's got us arguing about birds. look, man, i agree eagles should go but you can't disrespect the crow. you show me another bird that can use tools to obtain food!
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after losing in november, georgia republicans decided to make voting more like all the worst parts of flying. okay, so there's going to be really long lines, no one can have water and if you're late you can go (~bleep~) yourself. as a matter of fact, no shoes! everybody take off your shoes! obviously a lot of people were upset about this law. democratser with angry, black people were angry, the president was angry. for help, they turn to the only people whose opinions might actually account for something, giant corporations. >> more fallout over the new rote voing law in georgia. major league baseball pulled the all-star game out of atlanta and over the weekend the braves covered up the all-star patch on their uniform. >> the m.l.b. comes after civil rights groups put pressures on organization also and corporations to pull business out of georgia. >> two major georgia based companies coca-cola and delta aerials are taking the same stance, arguing the republican
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law was based on a lie and would restrict voting rights. c.e.o. ed bassian spoke this morning. >> the right to vote is sacrosanct and we can't do anything to send a message to people that we'll make it more restrictive and harder to have their voice heard. >> trevor: that's right, corporate america has come out in force against georgia's new laws. delta and coke spoke out, the m.l.b. moved its all-star game, and fx decided to film the next season of atlanta in ahmed al-issa. paper boy's not going to be happy. it's great to see corporations use their influence in support of voting rights, but just to be clear, they don't do this out of the goodness of their hearts, right. they did it because liberals were threatening to boycott them if they didn't speak out. and it's actually amazing what you can get companies to do when you threaten a boycott. i mean, just the threat of a boycott got coca-cola to back a voting rights group. think about that.
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that means with just a little more pressure we can probably convince coke to put cocaine back in their drinks! but i guess i'm not surprised they gave in because a lot of these companies aren't exactly in a great position to negotiate. well, you can't boycott delta aerials. what are you going to do, fly a different airline? ( laughter ) uh -- yeah. oh, well, when you put it that way, uh, i guess we'll put out a statement. now, here's the problem for these corporations -- anytime they try to make one side of an issue happy, people on the upopposite side are going to get pissed off, which is exactly what happened next. >> georgia based companies are facing backlash from republicans after expressing their dissatisfaction with that state's new voting law. now delta aerials and coca-cola have found themselves in a heated fight with kv brian kemp after delta's c.e.o. ed bastian condemned the restrictive bill,
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republicans in georgia's legislatures are looking at taxes on the company as retribution. >> a group is canceling coca-cola. they're saying pepsi is okay after at that c.e.o. spoke out against the state's restrictive voting law, asking for all coke products removed from their offices. >> chairwoman tweeted guess what i'm not going today? watching baseball. >> former donald trump is calling on conservatives to boycott corporations. >> it's time for conservatives to fight back. all these companies, the radical left will destroy our country if we let them. we will not become a socialist nation, adding happy easter! >> trevor: first of all, i love how he threw happy easter in there. forget politics, i think trump needs to start a line overgreeting cards. hunter biden exposes the russia
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hoax! the election was rigged! congratulations on your bar mitzvah. more importantly, trump called for boycotting the 1/2 and the m.l.b. pretty much the only sport left for him to watch will be soccer, and i actually think that he'll like it, especially the flopping. mr. president, an important part of this sport is making it seem like your opponent did something wrong when in fact they didn't. >> it truly is the beautiful gate. you have feel for the g.o.p. because they spend so much time defending corporate interests, cutting corporate taxes, letting corporations do whatever they want, and then the corporations are just like, cool, now we have more money to pay connell kaepernick. not only that, democrats are, like, we will disband every corporation and make them pay, and coke and delta are like, yes, queen! slay us! but this is tough for these corporations, too. they must really miss the old days when they didn't have to take sides on voting rights or
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culture wars. they just made diapers out of asbestos and that was that. these days, being a corporation means trying to navigate all these political issues without getting boycotted, which is not easy, but luckily we have an idea for how they can avoid this problem altogether. >> here at delta aerials, we've heard your concerns. you want us to speak out against voter suppression and you want us to speak out for voter suppression. it's been an uncomfortable position for us, like trying to squeeze your knees into one of our coach seats, until now. introducing blue delta, and red delta. our new subsidiaries that let you patronize the company with your values. at blue delta, we offer carbon offsets, an in flight copy of michelle obama's memoir and direct service between new york and los angeles with nowhere in between. at red delta every plane
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features an in flight shooting range. in the event of sudden loss of cabin pressure, no masks will drop. hungry, take delta blue and enjoy gluten free and vegan meals, or delta red where everyone is served a cow personally shot by don, jr. but more importantly, red delta says black people should not vote. while blue delta's headquarters is in a cloud above the ocean and will not return to america till racism is over. so buy blue, or red. no matter which you choose, we guarantee your money will never go to the other one. delta airlines. guys, we're trying here. >> trevor: when we come back, desi lydic figures out why women have been hit so hard during the pandemic. stick around.
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2.5 million women left the workforce. >> 2.5 million. >> that's right, 80% of net job losses. >> even when it comes to unemployment women are overachieving. for decades women have been chipping away at the glass ceiling joining the labor force with greater numbers each year until the pandemic which has reduced the percentage of working women to 1988 revels. the question is why is this happening? well, my interview with this doctor provided one compelling reason why. >> the pandemic is one of transi just needed to step back from my research. we lost childcare for several months -- >> trevor: i couldn't hear. there was something in the background. >> um, that's my three-year-old son with a lego train car. >> trevor: hold on. no, i think it's my background. is that the trash compacter? there better not be any toys in
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there. >> there were toys in there and thanks to school closures and chiekd closer mothers have stepped away from the workforce. >> i think we need to move away from the idea of personal choice. if you have to choice between a paycheck and avoiding a deadly disease, that's not a choice. >> no, it's not. doesn't matter if you're young, black, old, white or the slick bitch in the next apartment that keeps eyeing my husband, this affects you. >> my research is focused on an infectious disease and incarcerated population also. so i was looking at how to improve testing and support for the individuals who are very vulnerable to getting infected. >> so you are researching covid and you had to take a step back? >> yeah. i mean, it was a very difficult decision -- ( child in background backgroun) >> trevor: think what you could have accomplished if you had full-time covid safe
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childcare. i could have finished my one man show from home. ♪ my life is in this room where it happens, this roomy where it happens ♪ >> yeah, hart is important. >> trevor: millions of women spent a year at home workshopping with kids instead of audiences with producers. much like a stoned elon musk tweet, this could affect the whole economy. >> women leaving the workforce means these women are now losing the skills that they had and becoming less productive and, so, that could affect, actually, the entire economy and economic growth for years to come. even women who are still working are experiencing sort of hidden burdens that they're doing this dull roll -- >> can i have a snack? >> no, you can't have a snack. you just ate. you can't have a snack. >> they have to work and at the same time take care of their children. and, so, there are also mental
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health repercussions. something's got to give. >> hey, babe, can he have a snack? >> no, he can't have a snack! how do we fix this before plumes across america lose it. >> can i have a snack. >> no, you can't. you know whoot what, have all the snacks. dr. says it's going to take a lot of work. >> covid 19 highlighted and exacerbated long-standing structural gender and racial and ethnic gaps that need to be addressed and not to mention women, i think, have learned -- >> mommy. >> yes? oh, my goodness, you want me to google? we're looking up a pokémon, which is my other new ph.d. level area of expertise. so where was i? yes, if we would like to see things get better, we need institutions, policy-makers to pay attention to childcare and expand access to childcare.
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>> shoot. i had a question off of that, actually. sorry, maybe my producer sarah -- >> hi. i definitely have it written down in here ( child screaming ) >> i remember when you came up with that question. ( child crying ) >> sorry. >> yeah, you've got your hands full. that's okay. >> i come prepared. ( children talking >> mommy's working. >> one thing is certain. the pandemic has shown us the system is broken and women need institutional support. something has to be done. probably by someone who doesn't have kids at home. >> trevor: thank you so much for that, desi. when we come back, i'm going to be talking to dr. carl hart, an ivy league professor, about why he uses drugs. you don't want to miss it.
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to make the world more responsible, and even more incredible. ideas start the future, just like that. >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily social distancing show." earlier today, i spoke to dr. carl hart. he's a professor of psychology at columbia, university, an air force veteran, and a recreational heroin user. woe talked about that an his book where he explains what the real problem with drugs is. dr. carl hart, welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> thank you for having me, trevor. good to see you again. >> trevor: you have a new book out that's got everybody talking, "drug use for grown-ups." just to set the stage, you are a tenured professor at columbia, right. >> yes. >> trevor: you are a established and respected neuroscientist. you are not some dude selling little baggies of weed. we're talking to a doctor here.
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>> yes. >> trevor: first things first -- what is the biggest misconception around drug use? because when people say, like, drug use for grownups, people would be, like, what are you talking, vicodin? what do you mean by drug use? >> when i'm talking about drug use, i'm talking cocaine, mdma, sill seiben, and the biggest misconception is most people who use these drugs are addicted. the vast majority are not addicted. up0%, 80% of people who use drugs don't have addiction. they are responsible, go to work, take care of families, pay their taxes, responsible people, they're professionals. and that's one of the reasons i wrote the book to clear up some of those misconceptions. >> trevor: you speak from experience. i mean, i remember how shocked people were when you said i use heroin. everyone was, like, wait, wait, wait, what? >> let's talk about that for a
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second. i acknowledge heroin use, coy cane, mdma use, i acknowledge all the drug use in order to dramatize the fact that most people who use these drugs are not addicted. i wanted people to see somebody who's responsible, writes books, meets their obligations so they can understand, see, we have been misled. instead, they don't want to believe that. but one of the major concerns when we think about the drug themselves, like fentanyl, fentanyl has been approved in the united states in medicine since 1960. so we use fentanyl in medicine safely, not a problem. but when you think about prince, for example, he died in part because he had fentanyl in a bill that he thought was oxycodone or percocet. he didn't know fentanyl is a lot more potent than 0xycontin.
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and it can kill a person. so if prince knew what was in his drug, he might still be with us today. so in the book, i'm arguing we need to regulate these things, we need to make sure we have drug checking facilities so people will know what's in their substance so it decreases the likelihood of them dying from ignorance, not knowing what's in their substance. >> trevor: if somebody is addicted to cigarettes, is that as bad as being addicted to crack? are the effects of certain drugs not worse than other drugs in the addiction? >> yeah, so let's think about that. we could think about people who are addicted to alcohol, and then if they abruptly discontinue their alcohol use, they can die. the same sort of thing is less likely with something like heroin. so alcohol withdrawal can kill people. so when we think about the severity of addiction, alcohol is one of the sort of worse. but we manage to deal with that okay in our society, although we
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still lose people every year from alcohol withdrawal. but the point is, it's an important point here, if the majority of people who use any drug are not addicted, it tells you that you have to look beyond the drug itself. there are other factors that are important for drug addiction. other factors like psychosocial factors, psychiatric factorsic like people who have co-occurring psychiatric illnesses are far more likely to be addicted to a drug than somebody who doesn't. so it tells us as a society we have to be better, we have to treat people better, we have to do better, we have to make sure we have social safety nets. all of these things will radically decrease the amount of addiction that we see in a society. but when we focus on a drug, then we're not focusing ton the most important aspects of addictions. >> trevor: what terrifies me, though, on a completely uninformed level, i look at the stories, i go, man, whitney
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houston, and then dmx i read in the news, they, go, like, what happened, is he in a coma? it's because of drugs. then i go, man, dr. hart, i'm all for, you know, people legalizing drugs, but i don't want to keep losing people. is there something that i'm missing when i think like that? >> yeah. let's think about whitney. oftentimes you see the headlines. she had cocaine in her system. it probably had nothing to do in her death. she died in a bathtub because she fell asleep. she also had antihistamines in her system and other drugs she was prescribed. she fell asleep in the tub. if anything, you know, you wanted her to be awake. cocaine keeps people awake. so people need to understand that the headlines are often wrong. dmx, i don't know what happened with dmx yet. we don't know, but a number of people are speculating. it will be nice to know. but that's why we're trying to
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get the right information out. so if there was a drug involved, and he may have hidden what he was doing because it's stigmatized, we hope people come out of the shadows and they can seem help or they can seek information about doing the activity more safely. so we don't lose people. >> trevor: if you said to me six years ago, hey, trevor, weed should be legal, i would be, like, that is the devil. people are going to smoke the weed, it's a gateway drug and it will kill them all. that's what i was brought up to believe in my community and school and life. how could we all be so wrong and programmed so incorrectly? >> people have to understand that in the united states drugs are not banned because of pharmacology or science, drugs are banned because of racism. we band all of these drugs ringly bays of their association with a despised group. the opioids are banned because
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of our hate of asian, cheese folks, cocaine because i hate black people, marijuana because i hate mexican-americans and black people. so if we understand why drugs are banned in the first place, we can start to look behind the sort of curtain and see some of what the reality really is. like you said with marijuana, you can no longer fool people because more than 50% of adults have used marijuana in their life. so it's harder to fool them, but with something like cocaine or crack, it's still easy to fool people because most people haven't used that drug. it's still easy to fool people about heroin because most people haven't tried heroin. so as we increase the number of users with these drugs, it becomes more difficult to fool people, or when you have people like me and other scientists who peek speak up, it will become less likely that we mislead the public. but you have to remember, trevor, there is a lot of money
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in misleading the public about drugs, in science, in law enforcement, all of these sort of industries that have popped up around prisons. so there's a lot of money in this. people have to know and remember that drug trafficking, the illegal drug trafficking business is a multi- billion dollars industry, and that industry is supported primarily by middle class and upper class people, white people. but when we think about drug users, we don't think of them as being the users. so there are a number of people in our society who know that drugs are not the boogiemen, are not the devil that we have been told, but they are comfortable doing the activity for themselves, but they don't want anybody else doing this activity. >> trevor: right, right. >> we need to remember that. >> trevor: and then what do you say to the communities out there, especially black communities who go, like, dr. hart, what are you doing? we watched the crack epidemic destroy our communities.
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why would you advocate for drugs? >> yes. i'm not advocating for drugs, by the way. i'm just saying that if people are using drugs, we shouldn't throw them away because of their drug use. that's what i'm saying, number one. number two, when we talk about the crack epidemic destroying the black community, it's just wrong. it's true people had problems, but when we think about things like unemployment, the highest unemployment rates in the united states in black communities was 1982. crack didn't come on the scene until 1985, but, yet, crack is blamed for that sort of thing. we think about violence. we had peaks in violence in 1933, 1980, 1991. crack was on the scene in 1958 and the 1991, but we've had periodic peaks in violence, that's how societies work. so crack was blamed for these things that were really caused by things like reaganomics and
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reagan's economic policies. but crack was blamed. so i'm trying to get people to understand that, if you look beyond drugs, then we might find some real solutions. >> trevor: right. well, i could talk to you for ages, but, luckily, that's why you wrote the book. i hope people read it before they comment on it because it's one to have the most thought-provoking reads that i've had the pleasure of exploring in a very long time. dr. hart, thank you for taking the time, i appreciate you coming on. >> thank you for having me. i really appreciate you. thank you so much. >> trevor: always a pleasure. "drug use for grown-ups" is available now. we're going to take a quick break but we'll be right back after this. show for tonight, but before we
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