“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.” GoalTechnologyBloodDrugDiseaseTreatsPatientDecadesTrialsCellsDiabetesClinicalsParkinsonParkinson'sClinical Trials Author:Shinya Yamanaka
“By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.” ChildrenStatesUseFunGoalHeardDangerousDrugAbuseMedicineAddictionBe GoodReportsTreatmentIllegalPotAfternoonSaturdayStoppingEnteringNormInitiationDrug AbuseDrug UseIllegal DrugsUndercutSaturday Afternoon Author:Andrea Barthwell
“Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.” PeopleGoalCrimeInformationPersonalityDrugSpeedCommitRationalCommandAlternativesPanicPrescriptionsOur WordsDissemination Author:Gail Sheehy
“Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.” Has BeensGoalPowerfulWorryTypeDrugAnxietyTestsImprovementRecoveryTreatmentPanicPublic SpeakingShynessPhobiaPanic AttacksDrug Free Author:David D. Burns
“Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.” RunningGoalTechnologyFourCuttingStageDrugApproachHighestSolutionsIdealsDetermineComplexityApplicationSophisticatedPredictable Author:Bill Gates
“U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.” IfsWellsDoeActionCertainSocialGoalClassClearRecordsDangerousPolicyDrugAbuseHistoricalCurrentsTechniqueSubstanceReducingSubstance AbuseSocial ControlDrug Policy Author:Noam Chomsky
“When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.” DifferentUseAsksGoalLeaderPolicyDrugConsequenceDecadesReducingDrug Use Author:Noam Chomsky
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.” IfsKindRealUseOrderFallEnergyGoalCan DoSituationFocusGraceCrazyLandBuildingDrugLuckIncrediblesDesertGet BetterPullingAddictTruckPillowDopeGet MoneySomething RealResourcefulness Author:Bucky Sinister
“My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.” EndsLawGoalLevelsDrugMassLowsCriminalsAddictDrug AddictIncarcerationChargingLow LevelMass Incarceration Author:Michael K. Williams