Attention Quote by David Sheff

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their…

— Wendell Berry

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

— David Sheff

Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all…

— Mick Jagger

Simply because you take drugs does not mean you are an expert on them. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship between…

— Hamilton Morris

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction,…

— Armistead Maupin

I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to…

— Lou Reed

I honestly think drugs are a way crying for help. If not your calling attention. Doing drugs is like trying to forget the past,…

— Osvaldo M

The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.

— Frank Zappa

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

— Christopher Lasch

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably…

— Paul Mooney

Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to…

— Steven Machat

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our…

— Milton Friedman