Drug Problem Quotes

#1. If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

Courtney Love

#2. The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Barry McCaffrey

#3. It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Irvine Welsh

#4. Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

Bill McCollum

#6. It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

John Walters

#7. I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

David Lee Roth

#8. It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.

Anthony Weiner

#9. I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#10. With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

Burke Marshall

#11. The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#12. If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

Sam Branson

#13. Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

Keith Richards

#14. America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

L. Neil Smith

#15. The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#16. It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

Artie Lange

#17. I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

David Lee Roth

#18. People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Gloria Gaynor

#19. If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Ken Kesey

#20. They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

Pat Paulsen

#21. When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

Anthony Bourdain

#22. The CDC recently reported that opiate addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem, with the total number of painkillers prescribed in a single year enough to medicate every adult living in the U.S. around the clock.

Taite Adams

#23. It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

Jerry Orbach

#24. If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

Juan Manuel Santos

#25. To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

Ray Bradbury

#26. I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

Aaron Spelling

#27. One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Gilbert Gottfried

#28. Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Jim Yong Kim

#29. The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

Ryan Gosling

#30. 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

#31. If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!

Mallika Sherawat

#32. The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

Peter Singer

#33. When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the steroids for a long time, you have a problem. It's a drug and it's not good for the sport.

Anderson Silva

#34. I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.

Will Self

#35. I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

Sandra Bernhard

#36. What is happening to human resources in Punjab. 7 out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.

Rahul Gandhi

#37. People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in the world, and it's dwarfed in comparison to the addiction to feelings and people.

Chad Eastham

#38. Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

Barry McCaffrey

#39. In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Leigh Steinberg

#40. Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

Artie Lange

#41. But to conservatives whose value system gives priority to Moral Strength, the problem of drugs is the personal lack of the moral strength to just say no. It is a problem of personal values, not of social change or drug treatment centers.

George Lakoff

#42. The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

Sebastian Horsley

#43. Drugs and alcohol are not my problem - reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Russell Brand

#44. They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts ... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

Doug Stanhope

#45. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

P. J. O'Rourke

#46. My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.

S.A. Tawks

#47. From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#48. If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

Russell Brand

#49. The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

Aaron Sorkin

#50. I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.

Ben Folds

#51. One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

Irving Kirsch

#52. Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.

Lee Labrada

#53. The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There's a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it's called college.

Betty Ford

#54. A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

#55. Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

Frederick Lenz

#56. There is nothing better than hearing that there is a drug that will fix a terrible problem, unless you also hear that the drug is for treating schizophrenia (or possibly that it kills fairies every time you take it).

Jenny Lawson

#57. We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#58. Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

Carrie Fisher

#59. Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Charles A. Murray

#60. The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

Terence McKenna