“Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.” PeopleIfsWantGivingYearsBelieveMayChildrenI CanHelpingSeemsDiesChoicesMy OwnPathDrugSixAvailableMonstersFadesHarshSoberAddictEnablingFade AwayRelapse Author:Ellen Hopkins
“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
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.” FeelsBodyTodayMy OwnDrugDespairNothingnessBlonde Author:Farrah Fawcett
“It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, 'I'm going to have a drink' with your dad saying 'give me one too' is cool. That's being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that 'I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!' is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that's being free.” IfsGivingFeelsPersonsMovingMy OwnIssuesGenerationsMomDadDrinkDrugGive MeSmokingPotYour MomBeing FreeYour DadYounger GenerationCourteousMoving OutSmoking Pot Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own...” KindLongProblemHomeKidsWantedLeftMy OwnHairMonthsDrugHospitalsStepdads Author:Rose McGowan
“I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.” BelieveFactsGivenMy OwnInformationDrugAuthorityWorkersAddictionDrivenCocaineHeroin Author:Maia Szalavitz
“I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?” HumorFunnyMy OwnDrugOkayAlcoholAssCracks Author:Denis Leary