Drug addiction is tearing our communities and our country apart, and until we decide we're going to think differently about it, until… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will… — Cookie Mueller Copy Share Image
“Sure I tampered with my body chemistry -- and I emerged more than human! It's only a matter of time before an… — José Canseco Copy Share Image
“Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our young men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger… — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm… — Roddy Bottum Copy Share Image
Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's… — Edgerrin James Copy Share Image
“I grew up in Germany. Europe is far more liberal than America. Even most conservative right-wing parties over there are to the… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“disorder, chronic pain, and bipolar and other mood disorders. The procedure was also used to treat perceived defective personality traits that included… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“The decision-making part of the brain of an individual who has been using crystal meth is very interesting. When Carly and Andy… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“The drive downtown is an experience unto itself. You're controlled by this dark energy that's about to take you to a place… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“Many people fear that decriminalization and the controlled dispensing of drugs will lead to widespread substance use among people who are now… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about… — Anthony Keidis Copy Share Image
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“You know how old people lose all shame about eating, and it makes you puke to watch them? Old junkies are the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
“Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college… — Eric Blehm Copy Share Image
In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“But in many individuals in whom separateness is not relieved in other ways, the search for the sexual orgasm assumes a function… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've lost over 800 West Virginians the last year. Lost their lives to opiate and drug addiction. This is something that we've… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“A patient complains of feeling nervous or fearful. These feelings and behaviors suggest that the patient has an anxiety disorder, and the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. You know there's an alternative to… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“I'm sure there was some bloated-ego thing happening that I wasn't able to recognize, but I didn't feel like it would last… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image