Addict Quote by Milton Friedman

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

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market…

— Michael Badnarik

There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which…

— Kevin Sabet

Drugs are a big menace to our society.

— Patti D'Arbanville

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

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust,…

— Octavio Paz

We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people…

— Sonny Barger

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

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay…

— Danny Sugerman

One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a…

— Carl Hart

Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on…

— Kofi Annan

“The indispensable foundation of a rational stance toward drug addiction would be the decriminalization of all substance dependence and the provision of such substances…

— Gabor Maté