Character Quote by Dan Brookoff

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human…

— Frank Zappa

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

— John E. Sarno

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

— Samuel Johnson

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted…

— Henry Rollins

“Medical textbooks never talk about the pain that's caused by anything that doctors do... And many doctors think that the pain is justified "if…

— Aude Mermilliod

“If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood…

— Norman Cousins

Pain is nature's way of saying Don't do that. . . . Painkillers are mankind's way of saying Screw it ... go ahead.

— Green Monk

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors…

— Joe Lieberman

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper