Quotes About Addictive Drugs

#1. It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization.

Walter Block

#2. I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Sarah Silverman

#3. Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#4. Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

Chris Prentiss

#5. Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it's a tyrant.

Stephen King

#6. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.

Chris Prentiss

#7. I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

Sophie Kinsella

#8. I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

Rita Mae Brown

#9. Because sex, drugs, and religion all hinge on the same kind of simple neurochemical events: addictive, euphoric, exhilirating - and all, equally, meaningless.

Greg Egan

#10. Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, people ... what if you become addicted to me?"
"I am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only you're far more dangerous than cocaine.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.

Virgil Miller Newton

#12. The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

#13. And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

Stephen Schwartz

#14. I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Ellie Goulding

#15. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

Asa Don Brown

#16. My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#17. Life is fun. celebrate. If you aren't being kicked, the world probably thinks you are dead anyways.

Parashar Pandya

#18. So much for the crusade against drugs ... all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

Alexander Cockburn

#19. In 2007, researchers at the University of Bordeaux discovered that sugar has a bigger impact than hard drugs in the brain, The Health Science Academy publishes: Their experiments showed that refined sugar is 4 times more addictive than cocaine!

Tony Milton

#20. Surely by now you must know: It's love; it's love - but will there ever be good news? ...

John Geddes

#21. When something happens to me - good, bad, boring it doesn't matter - I have to tell someone to make it count. There's no point in anything happening if you can't talk about it.

Maureen Johnson

#22. My beautiful Ivey.

Kristen Ashley

#23. It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Gabor Mate

#24. Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

James Surowiecki

#25. But this kiss? This is one I won't forget any time soon. She tastes ... Jesus, I've never done drugs, but I imagine this is what that first snort of cocaine feels like, that first shot of heroine. Goddamn addictive.

Emma Chase

#26. You can force people to change - which they'll hate. Or you can inspire them to change - which'll make 'em love you forever.

Richard Doster

#27. There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Barry Mann

#28. He offered to make-out with Hunter if it would prove that he's ok with me being gay."
"Hmm," said Adam. "Yeah I think I need to see proof."
"Shut up."
"Tell him it has to be shirtless. Wait, let me get my phone out-

Brigid Kemmerer

#29. In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

Tom Vilsack

#31. Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Jonathan Carroll

#32. Each of us has a vulnerability like Edmund's that Satan is eager to exploit. It may be something addictive like drugs or alcohol, or it may be something seemingly harmless and perhaps even good like food, friendship, or work.

Discovery House Publishers

#33. Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.

Shannon L. Alder