Quotes About Medication

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That's why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

It comes down to this: Who am I? Am I my no-chemicals-added self, no matter how unhappy I may be? Or Should I swallow this pill, achieve tranquility and risk obliterating a certain essential part of me?

Some consider this a paralyzing moral dilemma. I don't. For me, having lived through episodes of major depression, this is a no-brainer. If there is a pill that will make you well, or make it less likely you will get sick, you take it. If Prozac hasn't saved my life, it has profoundly changed it.

There are times when I have the uneasy sense that I am ceding a big part of my autonomy to the pharmaceutical industry. I wonder who I would be if I weren't taking Prozac. Maybe I would be a tortured genius....or maybe I would be just me, with periods of dank despondency.

Demerol made it all seem okay.

I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.

You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".

I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.

Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis.

Does psychiatrists' ability to prescribe drugs give them an advantage over psychologists in places where psychologists cannot prescribe them? Not always. Drugs can be useful, but relying entirely on them can be a mistake. Whereas a typical visit to a clinical psychologist includes an extensive discussion of the issues troubling the client, many visits to a psychiatrist are briefer sessions that focus on checking the effectiveness of a drug and evaluating its side effects.