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Quotes About Drugs

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
~ Peter Ueberroth
And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
~ Jerry Garcia
There are some basic rules if they want to join the tumbling team. No drinking, no smoking, no swearing, no drugs and, most of all, no belonging to a gang. I read the riot act to them the minute they want to join. I tell them there's only one gang they can belong to if they want to be with me and that's Jesse White's gang.
~ Jesse White
If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
~ Mary Roach
The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.
~ Ryoji Noyori
It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.
~ Herb Kohl
To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
~ Aaron Ciechanover
Mechanism of action: Both drugs are active in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle. They bind reversibly to the ?-tubulin subunit, but unlike the vinca alkaloids, they promote polymerization and stabilization of the polymer rather than disassembly (Figure 39.27). Thus, they shift the depolymerization-polymerization process to accumulation of microtubules.
~ Richard A. Harvey
It is true that cults can help a person get off drugs, but that does not make their beliefs true. So it is with faith in Christ; its usefulness does not prove that it is true. Moreover, it is easy for people to brush testimonies aside, saying, "I'm glad it worked for him, but that has no relevance to me." Our witness must center not on our experience but on the facts of Christ's coming to this world.
~ Richard D. Phillips
Until the 1980s English Customs officers were instructed to treat any traveller carrying condoms in their luggage as a suspect person, and to search for drugs or other unlawful items.)
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Uma população que afirma, indignada, que é perfeitamente sã agora devora drogas psicotrópicas, como se estivesse pondo açúcar nos flocos de milho.
~ Richard Gordon
According to standard doctrine, there are basically three ways to stop a virus—vaccines, drugs, and biocontainment. There was no vaccine for Ebola. There was no drug treatment for Ebola. That left only biocontainment.
~ Richard Preston
If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!
~ Rick Riordan
Brian imaging studies conducted while a person is listening to music show that there are increases in cerebral blood flow in the same reward areas of the brain that are active when food, sex, or highly addictive drugs are involved. (Music may also, like other inducers of positive mood, decrease activity in those regions of the brain associated with negative emotions, such as anxiety or revulsion.)
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the pain and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Is it because of the party?" she asked. "You think maybe he did drug you? Because I'm sure it was Hayley. If you want, we could try to prove it--break into her place, look for the dope." I stared at Nicole. Her cheeks colored. "What can I say--I'm a closet rebel.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
~ Armand Trousseau
The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit.
~ Rudolf John Gorsleben
If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control
~ Karen Marie Moning
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
~ Harold George Koenig
Does it look like [drugs have] fucked me up? I'm sitting here on a beautiful beach in Mexico; I've written three books. I've got a fine one-hundred acre fortress in Colorado.On that evidence, I'd have to advise the use of drugs. —HST to Craig Vetter, 1974
~ William McKeen
There were special problems involved in tending the wounded, too, for the same cold that immobilized a man with low blood pressure also tended to freeze drugs solid. Finnish medics went into battle with ampoules of morphine tucked inside their mouths or taped to their armpits.
~ William R. Trotter
O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.
~ William Shakespeare
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
~ William Von Raab