Quotes About Cocaine Use

#1. When you eat your favorite food, 150 dopamine units are released. When you have sex, 200 dopamine units are released. But when you use methamphetamine, 1050 dopamine units are released - five times more dopamine than is released during sex. Even cocaine use only releases 340 units.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.

Rob Ford

#3. Nothing comes from doing nothing.

William Shakespeare

#4. I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Sigmund Freud

#5. Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#6. Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.

Michael R. French

#7. I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#8. Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. Many educators are loth to admit that the pursuit of pleasure might be a valid reason for drug use, or to recognize young people's curiosity, their need to experiment, to take risks and define their own boundaries.

Tom Feiling

#10. This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

Michael Scott

#11. The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.

Kurt Fuller

#12. Save for the occasional use of cocaine he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Devastation wrought by crack cocaine and the drug war, and the odd coincidence that an illegal drug crisis suddenly appeared in the black community after - not before - a drug war had been declared. In fact, the War on Drugs began at a time when illegal drug use was on the decline.

Michelle Alexander

#14. No man ever does that under the first fury of despair or remorse or bereavement he does it only when he has realised that even the despair or remorse or bereavement is not particularly important to the dark diceman

William Faulkner