“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.” StoriesFatherHalfProgressCenturyDrugAchievementResearchAccountsWideFascinating20th CenturyHistoricEnjoyableBiomedical Author:Arvid Carlsson
“If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.” IfsWantBelieveKindPersonsI CanWantedJobsEffortHalfDrugDon't BelieveMcdonaldsFriesMopping Author:Rick Ross
“This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.” WorldEyeGirlMy OwnHalfThis WorldDrugDevilRoundsSmokingHer EyesBudForksDaft Author:Dylan Thomas
“It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.” LittlesMadeRememberSongHalfStageDrugSingingGladMade ItHazy Author:Neil Young
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.” ForceHalfMillionsCrimeDrugAlcoholEpidemicsBluntInmates Author:Michael Botticelli
“Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.” CareSpaceHalfBuildingWillingCostDrugBenefitsAvailableMedicalPsychologicalTreatmentJailUsersMaintainingMedical CareProsecutingDetaining Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.” ThinkingWayMadeHelpingWould BeMotherFatherDecisionHalfBirthDrugRaisedPainfulViolentAddictAdoptedAlcoholismAlcoholicsDrug AddictSave Me Author:Melissa Febos
“I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.” PeopleThinkingSaidWholeSongNamesStuffHalfGroupsDrugDozenSupportiveExperimentation Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the history of the world. In 2009 alone there were 1.6 million drug-related arrests in the U.S. 1.3 million of these were for possession of drugs alone. Over half were related to marijuana. The forty-year war on drugs has cost $2.5 trillion.” WorldYearsWarCountryTodayBehindsHalfMillionsCostDrugPossessionBarsRelatedFortyPrisonerMarijuanaWorld HistoryWar On Drugs Author:Sam Branson
“It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.” IfsGivingChildrenTodaySchoolGivenHalfBoysPlansDrugTenTrainingPercentTwentiesOur ChildrenClintonHospitalsNurseSchool Nurse Author:Peter Breggin
“The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.” Has BeensTwoWarStatesHalfPeriodsDrugMassThirdsIncreasePrisonPopulationConvictionDramaticEnginesExpansionWar On DrugsIncarcerationMass IncarcerationPrison SystemPrison Population Author:Michelle Alexander
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” TwoWholeHalfCasesFiveSeriousNeededDrugTendenciesGrassCollectionsBagsDozenSaltLockedSheetsSeventiesGalaxyAcidVegasLas VegasCocaineLoathingPintsGonzoHalf FullFear And LoathingRumTequilaShakersDownersBudweiser Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time