“August 2, 1977: “Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself,… — Tony Dokoupil Copy Share Image
“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because… — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
“Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute,… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
“I don’t fundamentally understand why people give a shit about what other people put up their noses or what other people put… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Not only do we avert our eyes from the hardcore drug addict to avoid seeing ourselves; we do so to avoid facing… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“There is no evidence from anywhere in the world that harm reduction measures encourage drug use. Denying addicts humane assistance multiplies their… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“counterparts. Although the lower-SES average is higher overall, higher-SES white men have the highest reported levels of binge drinking, of any drug… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“The psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson devoted a chapter in his Pulitzer Prize—winning book, Childhood and Society, to his reflections on the American… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Inequality, then, is not just unattractive in itself; it clearly corresponds to pathological social problems that we cannot hope to address unless… — Tony Judt 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
“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“I was diagnosed with ADHD in my mid fifties and I was given Ritalin and Dexedrine. These are stimulant medications. They elevate… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The first result of this randomized trial was predictable from prior studies: in the control group, children with the short variant-i.e., the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“By now it is a ready-made cliché—the rock star dying young, whether by excess, by accident, or by suicide. For some, it’s… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
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