Addict Quote by John Warren Kindt Download Open image “Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts” — John Warren Kindt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addict Being responsible Gambling Responsible Taxpayers
“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about the epidemic… — Alison Moore Copy Share Image
"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction." — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced.… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that's not the way addicts operate,… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Addiction doesn't kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help! — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm a complete addict of The 'X Factor,' so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there's a downside to celebrity: your… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?'… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image