Quotes About Substances

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Sugar is a drug. We know that sugar interacts with reward systems in the brain in much the same way as addictive drugs. Studies have found rats fed sugar not only became addicted, but when they were denied it for a short period then later exposed to it, they binged on larger quantities of sugar—and other substances like alcohol.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.

If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

There was also a great absence of people, including behind the mahogany-topped reception desk. Now, there's a time when an unlocked premises is a positive boon to a police officer as in – I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances which were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, M'lord.

I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, m'lord." Leave the police alone in a room for five minutes and we start looking in drawers, locked or otherwise. It's a terrible habit.

may decrease the plasma concentrations of benzodiazepines, and smoking may increase the metabolism of benzodiazepines.

One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

THE MOST EFFECTIVE agent of dietary change is the adulated eater—the king who embraces whelks, the revolutionary hero with a passion for skewered hearts. "Normally disgusting substances or objects that are associated with admired . . . persons cease to be disgusting and may become pleasant

Marijuana isn't bad for everyone any more than alcohol is bad for everyone. Sometimes it even appears to improve people.

The simplest explanation is that the process of corrup tion brings back those elementary substances which cor respond to the peculiar nature of the changed accidents. Thus the miracle of the Eucharistic conversion does not abolish the law of the indestructibility of matter.

What interested me above all was the relationship of these substances to productivity. It has been my experience, however, that creative achievement requires an alert consciousness, and that it diminishes under the spell of drugs. On the other hand, conceptualization is important, and one gains insights under the influence of drugs that indeed are not possible otherwise.

The first rule of science, Captain, is to doubt appearances and to seek substances in their stead.

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

In 1976 the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed, sending the EPA on a 30-year-plus odyssey chasing down the chemical industry in a fruitless quest for responsibility.

In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.

Sour gas is one of the most dangerous, toxic substances known to man.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Poison! Poison gasses, you idiot! Defend yourself! Eat the celery! I thrust a numbing hand into an inside coat pocket, pulled out the piece of celery, and chewed on it. I always keep a piece handy, pre-prepared with all kinds of useful substances, for just such occasions as this. It tasted bitter as I chewed, but it cleared my head rapidly. It's an old trick but a good one, taught me long ago by a Travelling Doctor I met at the Hawk's Wind Bar & Grill.