Drug Abuse Quotes

• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Respect, Time, Memories

  Rolling Stone Magazine, April 16, 1992.

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• Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

  Doug Ose

  Drug, Abuse, Disease

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• Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Drug, Abuse

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Alcohol

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  Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Drug, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.

  Scott Stapp

  Alcohol, Drug, Abuse

  "Scott Stapp: Bipolar Disease, Drugs Fueled 'Psychotic Break'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. May 13, 2015.

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• In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

  Mark Skousen

  Freedom, Children, Rights

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• Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

  John Green

  Dedication, Drug, Abuse

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

  "Knucklehead of the week: Manny Ramirez" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. June 28, 2009.

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• All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny

  Big L

  School, Clothes, Drug

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• I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.

  Columba Bush

  Heart, Addiction, Drug

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• The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

  Sydney Walker

  Psychosis, Drug Use, Differences

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• All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

  Cass McCombs

  Sleep, People, Drug

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Medicine

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• The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.

  Thomas Szasz

  Names, People, Giving

  "The second sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

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• If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

  Thomas Szasz

  Gynecology, Addiction, Drug

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2003). “Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers”, p.11, Syracuse University Press

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• The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Two, Years

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam

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• Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

  Raymond Kendall

  Country, War, Years

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• When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

  Ethan Hawke

  Successful, Vanity, Self

  "Ethan Hawke on Fame: 'The Demons Start to Tempt You'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. January 05, 2010.

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• ...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

  Aravind Adiga

  Lying, Men, Phones

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, Pregnancy, School

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• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  Xavier Becerra

  Alcohol, Drug, Abuse

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