“....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.” ShouldWarPoorRichWeekDrugGet Rich Author:Bill Hicks
“In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.” IfsWantMadeMatterReasonAgeFallEasyDifficultCasesWeekAtheismDrugLateAbortionZeroSlidesWomen WantSlipperySlopesFetusSlippery Slope Author:Garrett Hardin
“Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!” GivingTwoTodayThreeNextBitsWeekAdviceHabitDrugDearCrowdsFollowingFinding YourselfDozenNext WeekDear FriendFollowing The CrowdThree Friends Book:The Rest of My Life Source: The Rest of My Life
“I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.” ReasonUseWantedFacesUsedSimpleTalkingWeekNew YorkDrugMarriedStonesDecidedAddictionBoxesMonstersRationalInsultDrsFlewMedicationDrug Use Book:Wishful Drinking Source: Wishful Drinking
“As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.” PeopleHas BeensTwoChoicesGivenBitsCompanyWeekIndustryDrugDevelopingLatterArticlesTwo WeeksNew YorkersPharmaceuticalAntibioticsAntidepressantsPharmaceutical IndustryDrug Companies Author:Bill Bryson
“I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.” ThinkingWritingI CanProblemWeekHugeDrugOkayAlcoholMake Me HappyLiver Author:Ben Folds
“I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.” WeekDrugPrisonAddictDrug AddictRecovering Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.” LastsAmericaHateSexLeaderWeekGayDrugNewsDevilBlameMalesTroopsFoxesScrewsEvangelicalScrew UpsJohn KerryFox NewsOur TroopsReverendsHaggard Author:Bill Maher
“If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.” PeopleIfsOrderDiesPleasureWeekMonthsDrugDisappearBillionsWeekendInstituteLottery Author:Michel Foucault
“An herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either kratom or kratom, and forms of it are sold in shops and on the internet. In the next few weeks, kratom is set to be classified as a Schedule I drug. That puts it in the same category with marijuana and heroin.” MadeFormNextKnownWeekInternetDrugMedicinePlantShopsNativeCategoriesMarijuanaSchedulesAsiaHeroinBannedHerbal Medicine Author:Audie Cornish
“Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.” WeekChangedDrugWoodsAndrew Author:Layne Staley
“Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.” ThinkingNeedsGivingFourWeekDrugGive MeGymBuzz Author:Amy Winehouse
“A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.” LastsNightLeftWeekMinutesCollegeDrugBedSoldierRanMarchPlasticToysSkipTossLast MinuteDoughnutMilkshakesHeadless Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day