“I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingBigsKidsPowerfulOne ThingDrugBelieverFactorsWowOne Thing At A TimeBiochemistry Author:Temple Grandin
“If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be very difficult to tell every doctor to stay home to work without drugs, to work without equipment. You might tell some to stay but there a lot of young people who are at the beginning of their careers who would be very difficult to persuade.” PeopleIfsCountryHomeMightWould BeAbleYoungDifficultCareersEconomyDrugDoctorsFunctionHospitalsCollapseEquipment Author:Chinua Achebe
“LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".” PeopleWorldChildrenTwoCountryStatesUseProblemUsedUnitedNumbersWonderUnited StatesEffectsFineDrugThousandAbusePreparedWaveReactionsJournalCaution1960sPublicationShort TimeLsdProblem Child Author:Albert Hofmann
“People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that LSD, if it is used properly, is not a dangerous drug. We actually should not refer to it as drug; this word has a very bad connotation. We should use another name.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldUseTodayUsedNamesKnow HowDangerousDrugAuthorityInsightLsdConnotationDangerous Drugs Author:Albert Hofmann
“There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.” PeopleTakenViolenceDrugAnd LoveCharityGreedRisingUnclesParallelsTranslations1960sHope And LoveFaith HopeFaith Hope And LoveFaith Hope And Charity Author:Alveda King
“When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.” PeopleAsksBalanceLessonsDrugYeahAlcoholMoodAsk MeHospitalsJailDrugs And AlcoholRehabBad MoodGood Mood Author:Marilyn Manson
“I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensCountrySpiritualInterestDifferencesChangedHugeAmountDrugPrisonSupportiveAddictAlcoholicsBishopsContributingDrug AddictMessed Up Author:Nicky Gumbel
“I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsGivingTryingKindHardChristianJesusEasyChristBreakWonderfulDrugGiving UpJesus ChristCommittedCriminalsLifestyleOur FamilyTrappedWonderful ThingsBetter LifeHard ThingsEasy To GetSupernatural Powers Author:Nicky Gumbel
“The single biggest way to stop the drug crisis is to educate people on the fact that if you do it, it's probably going to kill you or it's going to ruin your life. So why don't we all work together to stop that?” PeopleTogetherDrugCrisisWorking TogetherEducate Author:John Kasich
“We're going to stand with working people. We're going to take on the billionaire class. We're going the take on the drug companies and the insurance companies. We're going the take on Wall Street. That's where I think the future of the Democratic Party lies.” PeopleThinkingLyingPartyWallDrugDemocraticDemocratic PartyBillionaireInsurance Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can classify it as aesthetic shock, or even a psychedelic experience. Some people seek to recreate that experience through drugs. But the other way that you can do it is through art, and through spectacle. We have those experiences when we go to rock shows, or when we listen to a piece of classical music, or read a particular poem, or see a painting.” PeopleArtArtistAudiencePaintingDrugAestheticMysticalYou Can Do ItClassical MusicPsychedelic Author:Janaka Stucky
“What we have to ask is this: what can we morally expect of and allow to people whom we deploy to fulfill this or that social role :police officer, school teacher, physician? This may sometimes lead to difficult social decisions - e.g. should police be permitted to illegally import drugs as part of a sting operation? In the end, I think "common - that is, critical - morality" should determine the limits of the police role.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSchoolDifficultDecisionCommonTeacherMoralityDrugPoliceDeterminePolice Officer Author:John Kleinig
“You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?” PeopleGivingDrugHanging Out Author:David Sedaris
“I never hung around people who took hard drugs, and much less hung around artists who took hard drugs. All I know is that people should listen to their bodies more. The body is a temple. We aren't here forever. Take care of that space suit and make the best of it till the wheels fall off.” PeopleCareArtistFallForeverDrugTake CareHung Author:Teri Gender Bender
“I've lost over 800 West Virginians the last year. Lost their lives to opiate and drug addiction. This is something that we've got to fight. We need to have treatment centers that take care of people. We need to start basically education from kindergarten all the way through adulthood. We need to get involved and stop this epidemic that's going on that's just ravaging.” PeopleCareFightingDrugAddictionTake CareAdulthoodGet InvolvedDrug AddictionDrug AddictKindergarten Author:Joe Manchin
“I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.” PeopleThinkingWritingFallCultureTermSuccessfulPossibilityDrugCareful Author:Ana Castillo
“Right now we have millions of people in our country who are suffering in isolation, thinking that they are the only ones who are dealing with drug addiction, who don't realize that on their own block there are other people and families. They think they're alone and they think they're going to be judged and they don't want to talk about it. But when people do come forward and share their stories it's incredibly liberating, and it gives other people permission to tell their stories too.” PeopleThinkingGivingCountrySufferingRealizingShareDrugAddictionBlockIsolationJudgedLiberatingDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Vivek Murthy
“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
“Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's the ability to get a big audience because of these incredible, iconic, charismatic people. You can look at a number of issues - the challenge is to make sure you choose something that has all those issues. Popular music is like a mirror of culture, of who we are.” PeopleThinkingCultureChallengesAbilityAttitudeAudienceJudgingDrugMusic IsRacismIncrediblesYou ChooseVehicleIconicCharismaticPopular Music Author:Nick Broomfield
“It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.” PeopleThinkingRealProblemTakenCarCoupleDrugCar Accident Author:Roy Blunt
“I've been listening to a lot of gospel. I think it's the most beautiful kind of music. Just thinking about a group of people on a Sunday morning - no drugs, no partying, just connecting with a higher power. Then there's usually a choir joining together on one or two mics, creating this soulful music. So the recording captures the spirit that comes through.” PeopleThinkingKindTogetherBeautifulSpiritPartyMorningListeningDrugSundayChoirHigher PowerSoulfulSunday Morning Author:Jared Swilley
“It's very easy for me to feel sympathy for people who are messed up. It's not that I'm a pseudo-saint or a great person. I had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol when I was younger, and I know how easy it can be to mess up the rest of your life. One bad turn, one bad night, one big mistake, and everything is screwed up. Or maybe you were just born in the wrong house and raised in a bad way. I guess I can understand.” PeopleNightHouseEasyMistakeTroubleDrugAlcoholMessBig MistakeGreat PersonBad Night Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their fury at social dysfunction reflected in the law. Our sentences are way too long. We need to look at the war on drugs, which is to say we need to look and this is easier said than done. Once again, politically, not an easy lift at all. Nevertheless, our policy is self-defeating. We're not keeping people from using the substances. We're creating a huge black market, just like we did under prohibition, which attracts all kinds of criminal enterprise.” PeopleKindLongWarDoneDesireEasyBlackPolicyPoliticianDrugAll KindsEnterpriseFuryProhibitionWar On Drugs Author:Glenn Loury
“It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you call a meet and greet. I do it before the show. But when I was doing it after the show especially, there would be people who would come back and said, OK, Smoke, where's the party?” PeopleThinkingPartyDrugShow BusinessKill Me Author:Smokey Robinson
“There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.” PeopleKindCrazyDyingDrugAddictionHonestlyDramaticDrug AddictionDrug AddictPeople Dying Author:Roddy Bottum
“None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral principles, of self-deception, of altruism, of concern of others, of concerns for ourselves and an interest in our bank accounts. And social policies have to be responsive to the complexity of who we are as people or else, like the war on drugs, they're simply going to fail.” PeopleMenWarDesirePassionInterestMoralFailingEconomicPolicyDrugConcernRationalComplexityAltruismWar On Drugs Author:Dale Jamieson
“Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If sensations are your enemy, your body is your enemy. And if memory is your enemy, you'd better have a way of controlling your mind in such a way that you never are reminded of things that are painful from the past. If you avoid people, avoid having your buttons pushed, avoid going to places that might occasion anxiety; if you're hammering down drugs and alcohol; these are all methods of trying to mount that unhealthy agenda.” PeopleTryingMindMomentsFeelingsPastMemoriesEnemyDrugAnxietyPainfulAlcoholPresent Moment Author:Steven C. Hayes
“The issue is, you do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for people who are using any drugs. I think they absolutely need treatment. But we don't want to increase the availability, promotion and commercialization that would absolutely come with this idea of legalization.” PeopleThinkingDrugPrisonPromotion Author:Kevin Sabet
“There is a resentment and rejection of liberal culture. That culture is not available to many people in America. And the liberal coastal elite, who may never have been to rural America, just think everyone there is racist and homophobic and judge them to be terrible people. They think there is nothing wrong to be making jokes about 'meth heads', who are actually a group of people with poverty-related drug issues. They don't see their own hypocrisy. I think this is a huge issue and one that cannot be ignored.” PeopleThinkingCultureJudgingTerribleDrugJokesRejectionHypocrisyRacistResentmentIgnoredHomophobic Author:Erika M. Anderson
“Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.” PeopleKindMorningDrugOkayRock Star Author:Dean Wareham
“I was a drug dealer, so I've killed a lot of people, with drugs. When you're a drug dealer and you see drugs to people and you get them addicted and three or four years later they get killed in a car wreck, I have to answer for that. So, I've hurt a lot of people and done a lot of bad things that I have to answer for.” PeopleDoneHurtCarDrugDealer Author:Sam Childers
“I do a lot of drug and alcohol speaking with people to stop addictions. I'm not a Bible-thumper. I don't preach like that. I tell people that has addictions: "If you want your addiction cured, it begins right here. It begins right here." Jesus Christ is not a genie in a bottle. You got me? Jesus Christ can help you get through anything but even with addiction, he's not going to say 'hocus pocus, your addiction's gone'! You have to say: "I'm done!" It all begins right here in your mind.” PeopleMindDoneHelpingJesusChristDrugJesus ChristAddictionAlcoholYou Got Me Author:Sam Childers
“The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We know in the United States of America there is no difference in drug use between black, white and Latinos. But if you're Latino in the United States of America, you're about twice as likely to be arrested for drug use than if you're white. If you're black, you are about four times as likely to be arrested if you're African American than if you are white. This drug war has done so much to destroy, undermine, sabotage families, communities, neighborhoods, cities.” PeopleWarDoneBlackCommunityDrugAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodLatinoWar On DrugsSabotage Author:Cory Booker
“I do not believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, and having been a mayor trying to keep my community safe, if there was any drug that was driving violence, more than marijuana, it was alcohol which is legal. And so I just don't think this is a gateway drug. And by the way, if you regulate it you're actually going to overcome a lot of problems with people having to go to the streets to buy their drug. You don't know how dangerous that is.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveProblemCommunityViolenceDangerousDrugOvercomingAlcoholDrivingMarijuana Author:Cory Booker
“I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get to work with - not all of them are well-adjusted. Some of them are driven by heavy demons.” PeopleThinkingOpportunityBrainDrugDrivenDemonAddictDrug AddictAdventurer Author:Jimmy Chin
“The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it.” PeopleGivingRealMorningDrugHotCoffeeMarijuanaEvery MorningGet RealOpium Author:Nick Tosches
“Simply because you take drugs does not mean you are an expert on them. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship between drug consumption and drug knowledge: more of the former results in less of the latter. If that seems obvious, you have probably gone easy on the former, though this relationship only applies to curious people who are seriously interested in drugs.” PeopleMeanEasyDrugObviousCurious Author:Hamilton Morris
“Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.” PeopleDrugDignityOriginalityCocaine Author:Hamilton Morris
“Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment.” PeopleTryingSchoolMissingDrugDrinkingAlcoholMedicalInsultedMedical School Author:Danielle Ofri
“I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.” PeopleWritingKidsPartyDrugSmartJokesResponseJournalistSincereCocaine Author:Cameron Crowe
“People don't get that being a musician is a job, they don't get what the work takes. And that's just because you're living a dream, so everyone who's observing it from the outside can't really empathize with how much work it is because you're fortunate. And it's a kind of competition with yourself to stay away from all of the excess, whether it's booze or drugs or just the late nights with the addiction to watching the sun rise in some weird part of the world. But when you meet the other musicians, there's generally a spiritual exhaustion that you connect with.” PeopleWorldKindDreamSpiritualNightDrugMusicianCompetitionAddictionObservingExhaustionLate NightSun Rise Author:Kevin Drew
“I don't think the criticism is fair. I think the criticism is assuming that Donald Trump giving up on something. He's not. I think if you do end up seeing - if you do end up seeing - some type of agreement regarding DACA and this massive-but-not-wall border security, talking about technology and people, all the things that we need to stop drugs and illegals from coming across the border. If that does become the framework for an agreement that does not mean the president's giving up on his priorities.” PeopleThinkingGivingMeanTechnologySecurityDrugGiving UpCriticismAssumingPriorities Author:Mick Mulvaney
“I was talking to the great Armen Ra, the world's most renowned theremin player, and he told me, "I don't trust old people that do drugs, but I don't trust young people that don't do them." I think what he meant by that is that you've got to be young, you've got to be adventurous and experimental. I'm certainly not asking any of my fans or kids to do drugs, but I certainly wouldn't judge them for doing them.” PeopleThinkingKidsPlayerJudgingDrugOld PeopleAdventurousRenowned Author:Sharon Needles
“Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.” PeopleReasonDrugSuicideDrinkingUncomfortableSensitive Author:Jay Asher
“Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to forget about it by taking drugs or too much drink, but I was never like that. I was aware that there were very serious, big questions, and I was petrified about what might be in store for me.” PeopleTryingForgetSeriousDrinkDrugMusic Business Author:Cat Stevens
“The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.” PeopleRealProblemWallDrugWesternLifestyleIndulgeIranianPersianOpium Author:Hooman Majd
“I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.” PeopleWorldKidsBalanceDrugShyEnd Of The WorldCocaine Author:Elton John
“If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.” PeopleHelpingSupportDrugSpreadAidsPrisonerUsers Author:Elton John
“People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an intravenous drug user. And so a lot of people are still very bigoted about this disease. It's such a treatable disease. It's so - the end is in sight for this disease, medically.” PeopleThinkingGayDrugAidsUsersSexually Author:Elton John
“I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and amoral philosophies that were so prevalent in the 1960s and '70s, the rebellion of young people, which brought about the drug epidemic in so many to break down the family. Particularly during this decade, the spiritual rebirth. I'm an evangelical, and I've watched the evangelical church here and around the world preaching Christ, the death, burial, resurrection of the savior, receiving more receptivity everywhere, and that growth.” PeopleWorldPhilosophySpiritualGrowthChristChurchBreakDrugRebellionSaviorResurrectionPreachingBreaking DownRebirth1960sEvangelicalBankruptcyBurialMoral PhilosophyReceptivity Author:Jerry Falwell