If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving… AIDS is not the swift sword with… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“At the time the drug war was declared, illegal drug use and abuse was not a pressing concern in most communities. The… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“My loss of faith in God had, after all, neatly coincided with the beginning of my drug use when I was 15.… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office. It could be… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“What, then, is addiction? In the words of a consensus statement by addiction experts in 2001, addiction is a “chronic neurobiological disease…… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important… — Marianne Williamson 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
“In fact, the messages actually seemed to increase drug use. Kids aged twelve and a half to eighteen who saw the ads… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the… — Crispin Glover 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
“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
“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
“From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of homosexual men have more than 100 sexual… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
