Medication Quotes - Page 5

• I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Doctors, People, Pressure

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds of the consumers so that they will ask their doctor about it. That's the whole goal.

  Frank Luntz

  Doctors, Names, People

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• Now narcolepsy is really hard though because they're very tired during the day, they're sleepy during the day and it's managed mostly with medications. So we use medications to help them sleep better at night and to stay away during the day. But there are behavioral things you can do also by changing diet, exercise, having an actual nap schedule.

  Shelby Harris

  Tired, Sleep, Exercise

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The other option we have are medication treatments. So you'll have the treatments such as Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and we'll also have Rozerem and for some patients we use Benzodiazopine/Clonazepam. Things like that to help with anxiety.

  Shelby Harris

  Anxiety, Use, Helping

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Book, Positive Thinking, Self

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Voice, People

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• There are abusive practices that have been used in connection with various mental attitudes or feelings. Over-medication in respect to depression is an example that comes to mind. The aversive therapies that have been used in connection with same-sex attraction have contained some serious abuses that have been recognized over time within the professions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sex, Attitude, Practice

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Years, Months

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Important, Connections, Mood

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Black, Advancement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Music's my medication.

  Kenny Chesney

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• Most people do not have access to medication.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Access

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.

  Carrie Fisher

  Someday, Prescriptions

  "Remembering 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kanw.com. December 28, 2016.

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• We're beginning to find out that many of the school shootings are side reactions to Prozac-like medications. That's a very big hidden factor.

  Michael Savage

  School, Shooting, Sides

  Source: whale.to

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• We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

  Shelby Harris

  Insomnia, People, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  Elton John

  Mean, Tunnels, Light

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life.

  Elton John

  Mean, Atlanta, Agony

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Grandma, Technology

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• I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

  Johnny Ramone

  Pain, Get Better, Want

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.51, Abrams

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• Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

  Patrick Symmes

  Weekend, Wife, Southern

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• For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

  Betty Ford

  Years, Alcohol, Tolerance

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• There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

  Andrew Solomon

  Fall, Thinking, Circles

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• That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that it [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.

  Ty Pennington

  Ideas, Body, Care

  "'Revolution' Host Ty Pennington Talks Lifelong Battle With ADHD". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.

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• Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

  Leston Havens

  Profound, Groups, Alliances

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