“For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.” HomeKidsLife IsGirlParentBoysDrugSafetyClubsTragicSanitySanctuaryBoy And GirlOasisHome Life Author:Judge Reinhold
“By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.” KidsParentWonderDrugSymbolsPregnantAddictChicksDrug AddictStatus SymbolWhat Did I Do Wrong Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.” IfsKidsStuffParentWorstDrugAddictionCaughtAwfulPlentyCaught UpDrug AddictionDrug AddictLoving Parents Author:Roxanne Roberts
“We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.” BelieveWarKidsWinningParentDrugProtectAverageReformWar On Drugs Author:Ethan Nadelmann
“Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.” ThinkingAmericaFatherParentLeaderHolyDrugConcernedFairsMeetingsAmbassadorsNancyMadridFlamenco Author:Ronald Reagan
“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.” ThinkingWantFeelsMayDifferentRealSongParentSpaceSituationRight NowDrugPercentTrackAlbumsIntenseFeel GoodLots Of MoneyAutobiographyReal Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“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
“It's up to the parents to watch their kids and make sure their kids aren't doing any crazy drugs. I always blame the parents. When their kids are doing something crazy, I blame the parents.” KidsParentWatchesCrazyDrugBlame Author:Juicy J
“I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.” ProblemKidsSchoolParentFitDrugAuthorityJust BelieveProblems In School Author:Julie Delpy
“The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.” KidsTodaySchoolParentViolenceTaughtDrugPressureThreatMotivePeersVaryCurriculumPeer PressureLurkingSchool Curriculum Author:Ernest Istook
“I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.” GuyParentChurchDrugEatingMy FriendsMeatPlaying MusicEating Meat Author:Bert McCracken
“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.” PeopleMayChildrenMightAbleParentTechnologySupportGroupsInfluenceInformationBirthEasierDrugMedicalDefectsSupport GroupsBirth Defects Author:Steve Jobs
“I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.” ThinkingPersonsStuffParentEnvironmentBecomingDrugProtectMy FamilyAddictionDrivenAddictElevenAdventurousSexuallyDrug Addict Author:Melissa Febos
“So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.” FeelsLooksChildrenParentBrainFiguresDrugAuthorityDeserveAddictionWavePatternsTreatedFeel GoodSmall ChildHypnoticAuthority Figures Author:Bernie Siegel
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and kill more animals in laboratories in the hopes of creating drugs to enable us to continue with our animal-abusive lifestyle! Few of us look to the future (i.e., to our parents and grandparents), see the effects of an omnivorous lifestyle, and opt out of it before it makes us sick.” LooksParentAnimalEffectsDrugCreatingSickLifestyleTortureGrandparentLaboratorySlaughterAbusiveParents And GrandparentsLooking To The Future Author:Sharon Gannon
“If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."” IfsWellsChildrenUseProblemParentEffortHeardEmotionalCallingDrugMiracleClintonMedicalWell BeingTreatmentUsualCautionRemarksDrug UseDemagogueryMedical TreatmentEmotional Well BeingRitalin Author:Peter Breggin
“I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.” ParentSidesFieldsListeningGrewDrugGrew UpIntellectualGratefulActiveSan FranciscoHippie Author:Winona Ryder
“How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."” IfsWantTryingHappensWantedSchoolParentStreetsDrugRaisedFreakPanicCrowdedCrowded Places Author:Winona Ryder
“The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.” PeopleHas BeensProblemCareAbleParentCitiesEconomyConditionsEffectsHugeDrugHolesHealth CareGapsSeniorBostonImplicationsAffordablePrescriptionsMedicareMillennialsDetrimentalPrescription DrugsDonutsAffordable Care ActRepealingAca Author:Marty Walsh
“Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from people, the common denominator is that they all were ultimately able to find somebody who was willing to support them. Maybe it was someone they knew, like a parent or a sibling or a friend; other times it was a treatment center with a compassionate staff who didn't give up on them. That made all the difference.” PeopleThinkingGivingParentDifficultChallengesCommonSupportDrugGiving UpAddictionManageCompassionateSiblingDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Vivek Murthy
“Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug use is more complex because even moderate use can have unforeseen consequences.” ChildrenParentHonestyPolicyDrugConsequenceAlcoholModeration Author:David Elkind
“Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.” ChildrenKidsCultureEvilParentInfluenceStudentsDrugAlcoholMentalityQuestioningSecular Author:Julia Scheeres
“Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.” NeedsProblemCareParentDrugSickSupposed To BeElderlyPrescriptionsPrescription Drugs Author:Michael Moore
“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.” ChildrenCountryTodayParentMillionsEnvironmentPeriodsDrugGunAccidentsAlcoholOwnersGun ControlMisuseUndisciplinedGun OwnersGun SafetyShooting GunsBad Parent Author:Ted Nugent
“Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.” HardParentAbilityBearsDrugAddictionShockWeekendMarijuanaTolerateI Have LearnedDrug AddictionUnthinkableGetting HighRationalize Author:David Sheff