Quotes About Drugs

Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

There were mornings I thought drugs made me insane and mornings I thought they kept me from going that way.

What we craved was drugs. What we had was each other.

Mom lived in 709. Five doors down from 714, the number they stamped on Quaaludes.

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room Now everything is cross marketing. It's about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs. You choose.

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

Recovery isn't just about stopping drinking or giving up drugs; it's about taking responsibility. Not easy, if you've been running away from it all your life.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

There are no issues more personal than prescription drugs and the high prices Americans must pay to get the medicine they need.

Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Because this is brought in - because we do not have a border.

Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our equine and human athletes, and nothing impacts their health and safety more than the policies and procedures concerning drugs.

Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.

Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths.

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.