Drug Use famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.
-- Carl Hart

#Drug Use #Data #Different Experiences
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.
-- Maia Szalavitz

#War #Drug Use #Two
If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none of which will expose kids to more deviant or problematic peers and both of which are proven to be effective and at the very least, they won't hurt.
-- Maia Szalavitz

#Hurt #Kids #Drug Use
I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.
-- Michael Botticelli

#Thinking #Drug Use #Focus
One of the drivers of ***** has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with ***** and ***** use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue.
-- Michael Botticelli

#Pain #Drug Use #Issues
If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."
-- Peter Breggin

#Children #Emotional #Drug Use

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.
I have a fearless but neutral personality.
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
When I'm in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We've just been laughing all day today. In work, I believe that you really need to choose people that you get along with because work is life, so you may as well enjoy your time. I'm lucky. I have great people around me, and we laugh all day.