Prescription Drugs Quotes

• The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

  William Osler

  Health, Medicine, Disease

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• Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Health, Medicine, Physicians

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• The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Health, Medicine, Drug

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

  Chris Martin

  Drug, Records, Paper

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• If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

  Chuck Grassley

  America, Drug, United States

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• Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

  Grace Jones

  Differences, Drug, Illegal

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

  Chuck Grassley

  Issues, Drug, Competition

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• Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

  Susan Collins

  Struggle, Drug, Cost

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• Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

  Daniel Levitin

  Sex, Drug, More Money

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Senior, Medicine, Government

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• Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

  Judy Biggert

  Drug, Physicians, World

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• Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Emotional, Doctors, People

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• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  Sue Kelly

  Believe, Drug, Quality

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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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• We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Drug, Care, Action

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• And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

  James T. Walsh

  Senior, Commitment, Drug

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• Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Drug, Maintenance, Disease

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• I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

  Denis Leary

  Believe, Feel Better, Drug

  "I Feel Good" by Denis Leary, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  Dan Lipinski

  Senior, Long, Drug

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• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

  Kim Campbell

  Loss, People, Lost Friendship

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

  Michael Moore

  Elderly, Sick, Parent

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• I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

  Mike Pence

  Wall, Drug, Bills

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Wall, White

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

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• President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Senior, Eight, Average

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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