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Prescription drugs and heroin act in very similar ways on the brain. And, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability is a lot cheaper.

— Michael Botticelli

I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of…

— Carl E. Olson

“there were links between sugar and addiction to opiates;”

— Michael Moss

"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're…

— Hunter S. Thompson

As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is…

— Michael Moss

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs…

— S. E. Smith

“Producers process heroin and sugar the same way. Workers extract opium from the poppy plant, and then process the opium into heroin and refine…

— Deanna Spingola

What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids. What they…

— Don Winslow

Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.

— Eric Greitens

One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the…

— Michael Botticelli

“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed.…

— Michael Bihovsky

“Worldwide pharmaceutical opiate production rose steadily but it was the United States...that now consumed 83 percent of the world's oxycodone and fully 99 percent…

— Sam Quinones