Drug Use Quotes

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Dream, Alcohol, Scary

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• Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

  Jimmy Carter

  Weed, Marijuana, Individuality

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “White House Diary”, p.74, Macmillan

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• Drug-use is a terminal disease.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Disease, Terminal, Drug

  "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

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• 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

  People, Problem, License

  Source: afka.net

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• During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

  Bill Toomey

  Fashion, Drug, Use

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• No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.

  Radley Balko

  Real, War, America

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• There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

  Alan I. Leshner

  Psychedelic, Recreational Drugs, Drug

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• This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

  David Sheff

  Kids, Addiction, Belief

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• That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
  You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.

  Jennifer Echols

  Art, Hurt, Communication

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• We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

  Donna Shalala

  Encouragement, Program, Needles

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• It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

  Elliott Smith

  Years, Two, Caught

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• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Hurt, Uprising, Confusion

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

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• Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

  Davey Havok

  Practice, People, Facts

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• Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

  Serge Lang

  Hiv, Disease, Causes

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.622, Springer Science & Business Media

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• To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.

  Moby

  Hurt, Drinking, Thinking

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• 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

  Data, Different Experiences, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

  Jed Diamond

  Pain, Emotional, Roots

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.

  Marianne Williamson

  Our Generation, Ethos, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve.

  Tara Stiles

  Mean, Alcohol, Comforting

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• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Kurt Loder

  Country, Thinking, Rights

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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, Differences, Abuse

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• The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

  Peter Singer

  Sports, Athlete, France

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.323, Princeton University Press

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• [In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

  Thomas A. Constantine

  War, Eras, Cannabis

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• It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

  Marc Maron

  Travel, Adventure, People

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